Paste broken (even more) after upgrade to 12.1.3

[paulcwr]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

There was first the issue that pasting as pdf did not work among office since upgrading to 12.1.2 (or at least, pasting worked but saving as office 97-04 crashed). I was hopeful when reading the notes for the upgrade to 12.1.3 which claimed to address this but now it does not even paste. When i chose either 'paste special/picture' or 'paste special/pdf' between excel and powerpoint, i get a strange blue dot in the centre of the powerpoint slide but nothing else. Do you guys at microsoft test your updates?

 

[paulcwr]

Actually i found one way to do it. There is a great application called 'skitch' which is free and allows one to take a picture of a part of the screen and drag it as a pdf onto any application. i have been able to use that to copy part of spreadsheet and paste it into powerpoint. it seems that this small startup is able to make something work which the mac business unit is not - or are they not trying?

For those interested www.skitch.com is the way to get that application. Since msft has been at this since the summer, don't hold your breath for them to fix this.

Copy paste broken - great!

 

[Pat McMillan]

Just to follow up on this:

We did inadvertently introduce a problem in the 12.1.3 update that causes
pasting a range of cells to Word or PowerPoint as picture or PDF to fail or
sometimes crash. As far as we're aware, though, this only occurs if the
sheet you're copying from contains an embedded OLE object (an Equation
Editor object, Graph object, etc.). If you remove the OLE object from the
sheet before copying the range, Paste Special to Word and PowerPoint should
work fine. If that's not an option for you, this workaround should also
work:

Copy the range in Excel
Command + N to create a new workbook
Command +V to paste the range into the new workbook
Command + C to copy the range in the new workbook (that doesn¹t contain an
OLE object)
Select Word and Paste Special As Picture or PDF

We are investigating this and hope to get a fix out soon.

Thanks,

Pat

 

[Pat McMillan]

Just an update on this issue. We have discovered that this problem can occur
when there are no OLE objects on the Excel sheet. It can also occur if the
view in the Excel workbook is set to Normal View. If you encounter this
problem, you might want to check the View in Excel. If it's set to Normal,
changing it to Page Layout View before copying the range in Excel seems to
allow you to avoid the problem.

Thanks,

Pat