past special

[geb]

When I want to copy data with paste special I used to have the option to copy
all and it would copy the entire format. Now however it is a different pop-up
window that gives me the options to paste it as an object, picture, bitmap
etc.

Does anyone know why this changed and how I can go back to copying the
entire format incl. borders etc? Thank you in advance.

 

[Sheeloo]

Most likely you have the two workbooks open in different instances of Excel.

To test, close one and open it again from the File->Open option within
Excel...

To fix the 'problem'
Try
Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

1) Start->Run-> excel.exe /unregserver ->OK.
2) Start->Run-> excel.exe /regserver ->OK.

See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe (most likely C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office12)

In that case Start->Run-> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office12\excel.exe" /regserver -> OK

Note that quotes are required because of spaces in the path

 

[David Biddulph]

Make sure that you are copying between 2 documents opened within one
instance of Excel, rather than opening 2 instances of Excel.