Cut, copy and paste greyed out

[J Williams]

Microsoft Excel 2003 SP2 on Windows XP SP2

The Cut, Copy and Paste icons are greyed out. They are also greyed out on
the Edit menu. Obviously the Paste icon is meant to be greyed out until
there's something in the clipboard, however it remains greyed out even when
I've copied some text.

The Cut, Copy and Paste options are available if I right-click a cell and
work OK.

Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V work fine.

I've run Help - Detect and Repair and it made no difference.

This problem occurs on both new and existing workbooks.

Any ideas how to fix this?

thanks,

 

[Dave Peterson]

I'd try this first.

Tools|Customize|toolbars tab
Select Worksheet menu bar
and click reset.

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Here's from a previous answer by Dave Petersson

"Maybe you could try resetting that menu.

Open excel
hit alt-f11 (to get to the VBE)
hit ctrl-g (to see the immediate window)


type this and hit enter:
application.commandbars("cell").reset


Then back to excel to test it."



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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

http://nwexcelsolutions.com

 

[Dave Peterson]

Oops. This will reset the options under Edit on the worksheet menu bar.

For the icons on the Standard toolbar:

Tools|Customize|toolbars tab
Select Standard
and click reset.

 

[J Williams]

Thanks for your reply, however I tried that and it didn't make any
difference.

 

[J Williams]

Thanks Dave that worked.

Thanks for your reply, however I tried that and it didn't make any
difference.