Q: Copy and Paste doesn't work properly on Yosemite

My copy works fine... paste doesn't work at all. *** is going on, Apple?

Just curious if you've found a solution to this problem...

I've got a friend with the same issue.

It seems to be isolated to Word. All other text editors copy/paste ok.

I can even copy from Word, paste into TextEdit (works fine), then copy/paste into Mail and it works as it should. Some of the bullets don't transfer, but the rest of the formatting looks fine.

Mail must not like something that Word is sending to the clipboard.

it usually works. How's that for a binary world? See below.

But when you add bullets, like Barney-15 E wrote below,  you get some oddities in the original Copy from Word and Paste into Mail.  The original bullets show in the Mail but get squeezed onto left hand margin, meaning the tab has been lost and are reduced in size.

A friend who upgraded to Yosemite has a similar problem. But it is not isolated to Word as he doesnt even have it. He can copy and paste a few times but then it stops working all together until restart.

Apparently this is one of the many bugs we've all heard about this OS. (He is running the latest, 10.12)

I would love to hear of any fixes for this, but I fear we'll have to wait for apple to act.

robzbuzz wrote:

 

A friend who upgraded to Yosemite has a similar problem. But it is not isolated to Word as he doesnt even have it. He can copy and paste a few times but then it stops working all together until restart.

 

Apparently this is one of the many bugs we've all heard about this OS. (He is running the latest, 10.12)

 

I would love to hear of any fixes for this, but I fear we'll have to wait for apple to act.

Never seen that. Never heard anyone report that. Sounds a bit different than described above as the above problem actually pasted something. Your description seems to be that it doesn't paste at all. That's a whole different problem and as it slowly appears, I would suspect some other software causing it to happen.

Copy/Paste between programs stops working in Yosemite until restart

Apple applications use a special CocoaRTF preamble for copy/paste activity. If Microsoft is not using that in Word, and sending different RTF instructions, that could very well interfere with the copy/paste/paste match with style functionality between Word and Apple applications.

The following is the first line of the RTF preamble written to the clipboard via copy/paste from the text above:

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf1265\cocoasubrtf210

I have a similar issue, but only with Word. When I copy text in Word and paste it into Mail only a portion of it shows up. If I paste into TextEdit or some other app it pastes fully. I can then copy it from TextEdit and paste the full text into Mail. In other words I have to copy from Word, paste into TextEdit, copy from TextEdit, paste into Mail. It doesn't matter whether I use Paste & Match Style or Past as Quotation in Mail.

Here's an example:

1. Paste from Word to Mail, incomplete text:

Digital diasporas & Social Media use: Arab Canadians’ & Canada

This research offers a new approach to study digital diasporas by usingdiscussion to a certain direction.

2. Paste from Word to Safari, complete text:

Digital diasporas & Social Media use: Arab Canadians’ & Canada

This research offers a new approach to study digital diasporas by using a variety of webometric tools and empirically examining social media production of a diasporic community. It investigates over 72,000 comments and posts on a Facebook page called “Arab Canadians” (Facebook, 2010). The study uses the networked gatekeeping theory in a new context by examining the kind of sentiments expressed on Facebook in relation to an active and large immigrant group in Canada. Beside the analysis of social media units, the Facebook page administrator was interviewed to further understand the purpose behind creating it as well as other relevant issues. The results of the study revealed that the majority of comments carry highly positive sentiments towards Canada and its people; yet there was evidence that some comments were moderated. The study concludes that the Facebook administrator functions as a centralized gatekeeper who filters and monitors the posts and is also a person who leads the online discussion to a certain direction.

Steven Jones3 wrote:

 

I have a similar issue, but only with Word.

No, I think that is the exact same issue.

As Viking pointed out, it appears to be the rtf encoding. I don't know whether it changed in Word or changed in Mail. But, I'm able to copy/paste into Mail with other programs, so I assume it is Word.

Thanks for the clarification.

My strong suspicion is that it's Mail. I've had other issues with it, such as messed up threading (the Select-Command-K option is grayed out in classic layout, and in... non-classic layout messages get grouped into threads that have no connection to one another). I've been surprised to see neither of these things addressed in either Yosemite update yet.

This worked for me

1) Copy and paste  from Word into Apple  Mail using Apple C and Apple-V

2) Ignore formatting and missing bits

3) Change mail to Rich Text

4) Highlight the pasted-in nonsense

5) Repaste with apple--V overwriting the original.

Result- all the word in all the right order!

That was after a lot of grief!

I have similar experiences like many of you have here.

MS Word 2011: If I copy a table I created in a Word-document and paste it into the same document or another Word-document, only unformatted text (from the original table) is pasted. It looks like what you can see in this picture where the original table and the pasted result just below the table are shown.

Does anyone have experienced this table-problem in Yosemite? Or found a work-around?

Note that this copy-paste problem with MS-Word-tables does not exist on a Mac with Mavericks which I also have access to right now.

KimZing wrote:

Does anyone have experienced this table-problem in Yosemite?

 

 

No