| Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Liane Blanco | 7/21/11 6:27 PM | Browser & Operating System: Firefox (and Safari, and Chrome) Mac OS X 10.5 Free consumer account Copy and paste does not work. In Help, there is reference to using the document toolbar but unfortunately there is no document toolbar. I have tried usi |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Gill | 7/22/11 3:43 PM | Did you try logging out and clearing cache/browsing data? Are you running browser extensions? I have no problems at all with Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V in FF or Chrome, nor as far as I remember on the rare occasions I use IE on Vista or XP. |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Flutterbug79 | 7/23/11 7:16 AM | I am having the same problem. It will only copy and paste text from the spreadsheet I'm working on. I am trying to add urls and the only way is to maually type them in which is frustrating when trying to add long urls. Hope someone can tell us what's |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Jmhall | 7/30/11 10:52 AM | My specs: Mac OS X 10.7, Safari 5.1, Firefox 6.0. This is completely recreateable. Failure/chirping occurs when trying to copy from a Google Doc. No other docs open. I have noticed that it happens during or right after an autosave. This is how to |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Jonathan Fichter | 8/5/11 7:09 AM | Browser & Operating System: Firefox 5 tested on two systems: Vista and Windows 7 32-bit Copy and paste works unreliably. Interestingly, I only experience this problem with my Google Apps for Education Account; I haven't had problems with my individu |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | ffuquasteve | 8/13/11 7:38 AM | I can't get anything to copy and paste into google docs at all. I can test copy and paste into openoffice, so the text is copied properly. This doesn't work on chrome or firefox under vista. It's too bad; I wanted to use google docs with my students |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Gill | 8/15/11 8:39 AM | @ffuquasteve - did you try the paste using Ctrl-V? As you say the copy step is clearly working. |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | maryann7777 | 8/18/11 4:19 PM | Please help. I can't get any urls to copy onto my Google Doc. My Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V within the docs works fine, I can't click on the formula bar and hit copy to copy a url. Does anyone know how to fix this? There is no way I want to type in each url |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | RDG899 | 8/27/11 2:36 PM | Copy and paste from a shopping list to document works in I.E. 8. I did have click OK to allow I.E.8 to access my clipboard. A setting in Chrome? |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | bomBH | 9/28/11 5:17 AM | I have encountered the same issue. It wastes much time. The shortcomings of Google Docs are not isolated to this issue alone. It falls short as a functionable support tool on many fronts. It works as a space saver alone and even then it distorts |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | leveycat | 10/5/11 10:49 PM | This. Who messes up copy/paste? Really? Probably the most important function-Google please fix. I'm having trouble copy/pasting between two separate essays, and also trouble copy/pasting between GoogleDocs and other programs. I think the problem is |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | caycepollard | 10/26/11 5:16 AM | Usually I can copy and paste w/o problems, but every now and then, during work, having worked the second before, suddenly "copy" does NOT work. Even moving the cursor around with the arrow keys does not help. To fix it, I need to double click a cell, |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | programmerguy | 11/1/11 6:56 PM | I cannot paste any images into a Google Doc that was copied from anywhere else on my computer. I'm having the same problem on Chrome and Firefox. I can copy and paste text, but no images. This is a pretty serious issue if I'm going to use the prese |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Jane_Howitt | 1/6/12 2:35 PM | Hoorah!! Your faster workaround worked! I've been driven potty today by the stupid chirping from Google Docs every time I've tried to copy text.Then -- for no good reason I can come up with -- it copies. But I've done nothing different. Now I shan't |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | shyam674 | 4/17/12 11:49 PM | Doesn't work still! This would be such a useful feature, especially when we want to paste screen shots from the clipboard. Forced to use Word :| |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | LasseT | 4/27/12 8:25 AM | Really need to figure this out or Google Apps are not going to look good in my Company review of email IE Google Apps vs Office 365 |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | kabstract | 5/7/12 4:05 PM | Still not working, neither on Opera 11 or latest Firefox. |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Gill | 5/8/12 9:47 AM | Not even using Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V in a browser with cleared cache? Note that Opera is not a supported browser. Works for me in FF under Vista and XP - I think I was on FF11 last time I checked though I am usually on 7 as that is what we are provided with |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | buster96 | 5/15/12 6:35 AM | Simple answer found above - just double-click in a blank cell and then paste - from a copy made from anywhere inside or outside google docs.... |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | FeralReason | 5/25/12 9:33 AM | Personally, I'd rather export to Excel or Word (or retype from scratch) than have to disconnect browser extensions and clear the cache every time I want to copy and paste. Since this problem has been around for at least 2 years it's pretty clear tha |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Gill | 5/25/12 3:38 PM | << Personally, I'd rather export to Excel or Word (or retype from scratch) than have to disconnect browser extensions and clear the cache>> That's why I keep one browser for Gdocs work, and have it set to clear itself on closing (FF - I haven't found |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | VitaminP21 | 6/16/12 2:59 AM | I'm also suffering from the same problem. I'm trying to copy text which is in different format from other text and it just plays the annoying sound of "Not working...". |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | cswalsh | 8/12/12 1:16 PM | I've given up on trying to copy and paste in Google Docs (mac OSX 10.6.8 chrome 21.0.1180.57). It doesn't work on my macs using keyboard shortcuts, right clicking or menu options. If it's only text, I usually retype -- sometimes I can copy into Te |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | scott99 | 8/13/12 1:46 PM | I was having the same problem. I was trying to copy cells from one Google Spreadsheet to another Google Spreadsheet. I'd try paste the cells and it would do nothing. I found the solution, at least it works perfectly fine for me. You have to use th |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | DMahalko | 8/30/12 10:41 PM | I have found a partial solution for the Docs Spreadsheet and Firefox 15 on Windows 7 64-bit. (This may work for Mac and for Internet Explorer / Chrome.) I want to take a column of cells, copy them, and paste into Notepad or a Word document or whatev |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Gill | 8/31/12 1:32 PM | Or use Ctrl-C ? |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | DMahalko | 8/31/12 1:51 PM | Interesting. Wow the performance of the user interface is wildly inconsistent. That's some awful usability you got there, Google. Ctrl-C is a copy function of both the Google Apps menus and the Firefox menus, but works differently from the mouse-se |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Falin Ulfur | 10/6/12 6:41 PM | I've been having the same issues for the last several weeks. I can't copy/paste/select text in web forms. It's extremely frustrating to have to open a different browser just to do what should be simple and intuitive... and used to work fine. I've not |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | TKT2 | 10/17/12 9:41 AM | Yes. That is a definite fix to a huge problem. |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | DAS1951 | 10/17/12 10:51 AM | I have found random variations in appearance of GD from computer to computer (same browser) and from browser to browser. As regards the specific editing problem discussed here, at present: In Firefox 16 I can copy and paste (right-clicking on mouse |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | chelsea clarke | 10/19/12 6:53 PM | I am also having trouble using copy and past from google doc to google doc. It give a chirp the first 2-4 times I try to copy and then it finally copies. Paste works fine after that. |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Matthew Keath | 11/26/12 3:08 PM | I have the same problem when cutting and pasting from Google Docs to anywhere. It works the first time but not after that. I have to click refresh to get it to work. i spend a lot of time adding content from documents to websites, and this means I ca |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Massage iNDY | 11/27/12 10:06 AM | For using Google Chrome i am able to simply use the browser Copy/Paste instead of the google docs copy and paste and it works without any type of refreshing. The browser copy paste is located in upper right hand in the menu. |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Cameron Coye | 12/28/12 2:37 PM | Win! |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | mmmmbbbbbb | 12/31/12 6:04 AM | The fact that Google seems unable/unwilling to fix this trivial piece of functionality for *Safari* should come as no surprise considering the animosity between the companies involved. Do no evil, except vs. competitors... |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | NN123ZZ | 3/3/13 7:25 AM | I had the same problem: In Firefox, do: Crl + Shift + Delete, to clear history, and in the box select ONLY Clear Cache and deselect everything else (otherwise you'll lose all your browsing history and so on). Once this is done, just Copy and Paste a |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Raven Lees | 3/3/13 11:08 AM | What I did was make the text a "link" then I changed the colour and turned off the underline. |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Dale Mahalko @LHS | 3/4/13 8:53 AM | I don't think it's trivial to fix. The browser is being expected to intercept and pass system functionality that used to be reserved for the web browser itself. That is hard to do safely and securely, since the browser's clipboard is shared across t |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Craig Zutavern | 3/5/13 7:19 AM | I was becoming extremely frustrated copy from 1 google doc to another inside of chrome. In the end the solution was to always use the keyboard (ctrl -c and ctrl -v). If I used the right click menu it broke. |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Gill | 3/5/13 10:29 AM | Yep, that's quite normal - or you could have tried the web clipboard. |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Tania Ellingbo | 3/20/13 12:01 PM | OMG! Thank you!! Everyone: To copy/paste into a Google spreadsheet doc, from anywhere, inside or outside of Google Docs, JUST DOUBLE-CLICK IN AN EMPTY CELL, THEN PASTE. This seriously made my day! yAY!!!! |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Steve J Davison | 4/18/13 4:49 AM | Using Safari I find that I can re-engage the ability to paste by just changing the doc in a trivia wayl (e.g. adding and then immediately removing a space) and then copying. The method of using copy doesn't matter. |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Zachary Bryan Smith | 5/14/13 4:38 PM | Hey, what I've been doing is fairly easy and shouldn't put you too far out of your way. I right click. Research the highlighted, and copy from the "not found" notice. Its still slightly annoying, but it beats the alternative. |
| Re: Copy and paste doesn't work, at all | Theresa Asiasiau | 6/13/13 2:07 AM | something is wrong with this. it does not paste any picture on to the document. by theresa |