excel command 'c' copy functionality not working

Ran into the same issue this evening - Excel for Mac 2011 on OS X 10.8.5. CMD+C no longer copied (though the menu was flashing). I did the CMD+SHIFT+C, and copy started working, but Paste no longer worked. I did CMD+SHIFT+C a second time - and now both Paste, and Copy work fine with CMD+V and CMD+C respectively.

Does anyone know what CMD+SHIFT+C is doing to fix this issue?

Here's what works for me: when this happens, copy a random cell "the windows way" i.e. by using "ctrl + c". Then paste "the mac way" i.e. "cmd + v" in another cell. After that "cmd + c" and "cmd + v" works again. 🙂

Find this: at

https://biohazardev.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/fix-microsoft-office-2011-for-mac-c opy-cut-paste/

Go to Settings, then Keyboard and select the tab “Keyboard Shortcuts”.

Next, you go to Application Shortcuts and you press the “+” button, You select the Microsoft Office Word (or whatever Microsoft Office application you want), type the command (“Copy” or “Cut” or “Paste”) and the corresponding keyboard shortcut.

You should end up with something like this:

it works for me now.

I needed to copy text from Messages and paste into an Excel cell. Before upgrading to Office 365, Excel v.15.13.1, I had Excel from Office for Mac 2011 and had no problems cutting and pasting. Once I upgraded, I could no longer copy and paste into Excel.

As you suggested, I customized Keyboard but through Mac's System Preferences.

Open Mac's System Preferences. Choose Keyboard, Shortcuts, App Shortcuts, click the "+", Application (choose Excel), Menu Title: (type "copy"), Keyboard Shortcut:( press "command" key and "C" key), Add. To add the Paste function, click the "+", Application (choose Excel), Menu Title: (type "paste"), Keyboard Shortcut:( press "command" key and "V" key), Add.

For me, this fixed the more than aggravating issue of not being able to copy from another app and paste into Excel.

Same issue as others describe with Copy/Paste cmd-C / cmd-V not working, but in PowerPoint, and not in Excel or Word. In PowerPoint, I used Shift-Cmd-C, and then quit and restart PowerPoint, and the keyboard shortcuts are back to normal.

This procedure also fixed the Equation Editor in PowerPoint! It is not strictly on-topic, but I will describe this for future googlers: I had a problem with the Equation Editor in PowerPoint (Office 2011): I could see the character menus but I was unable to insert any of the characters into the equation. I tried re-installing the MS fonts but it did not help. After I did the procedure above, the Equation Editor was working normally.

Thank you for this fix!

Thanks djrocketodd.

I had this issue too and, following your response, it worked by pressing cmd+shift+c.

Now I can copy using "cmd+c" and not "ctrl+c", which was quite annoying.

Thanks!