Re: Unable to paste pictures from Clipboard into Powerpoint 2003

[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

Have you tried Ctrl+V to paste (after screenshoting?)
"Jeremy" <Jer...@discussions.microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
187568B9-00A5-426A...@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'd be very grateful if someone can help me with this problem:
>
> When I try and paste any picture from my clipboard (including screen
> captures using printscreen), all I see is an unfilled (blank) placeholder.
> This does not happen with other Office 2003 applications such as Word.
>
> When I open the Office Clipboard sidebar, I can see the picture thumbnails
> perfectly fine. However, I still cannot paste them into my slides - all I
> see are blank placeholders again.
>
> I have also tried importing saved picture files and they work fine. I
> would
> like to be able to use the copy/paste from clipboard though. It would cut
> out
> a lot of unnecessary file-saving and deleting.
>
> Thanks!
>
> I am running Win XP SP3, with Office SP 3.

[Steve Rindsberg]

> I am running Win XP SP3, with Office SP 3.

Office SP3, but which version of Office?

Try Edit, Paste Special and choose PNG as the paste type.

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[Jeremy]

Hi Jean-Pierre,

Yes, I have. An empty placeholder the same size as the image appears.

Thanks

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Jeremy,

Have a go at this:

Tools, AutoCorrect Options ...

On the "AutoFormat As You Type" tab, remove the check next to "Automatic Layout
for Inserted Objects" (I'm betting it's checkemarked; you don't want it to be)

In article <B1C0382E-D492-42D0...@microsoft.com>, Jeremy wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> I'm running Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003.
>
> Under Edit>Paste Special I have two options after I print screen : "Device
> Independent Bitmap" and "Bitmap", but no PNG format. Neither of the available
> options work - both paste an empty placeholder. The placeholder seems to
> follow the size of the picture that was supposed to have been pasted.
>
> I have now also found out that I cannot insert Microsoft Equations, Excel
> Charts or Excel Worksheets etc. I can edit the chart initially when I insert
> it, and even see the chart on the slide.But once I confirm the values for the
> chart, the whole chart disappears. Same story with the equations and
> worksheets.
>
> It's driving me crazy! Can you help?
>
> Thanks

[Jeremy]

Hi Steve,

You're right, it was checked, but still no luck. I've unchecked the option
you mentioned and tried Print Screen/paste but I still get the empty
placeholder. I've also tried restarting Powerpoint (and checked that the
option was still disabled) but the problem persists.

This is one weird bug! Like I've said earlier, I can paste into other Office
applications like Word. I can even copy and paste images FROM Word (but not
anywhere else, it seems) and it works. Why??

So now my workflow is

Copy from source --> Paste into Word --> Copy from Word --> Paste into
Powerpoint.

Which is obviously not ideal.

[Steve Rindsberg]

Weird ...

One other thing ... make sure that nothing is selected when you do the paste.

[Steve Rindsberg]

Given the symptoms, a call to GhostBusters might be in order.

But first, choose Help, Detect & Repair and let that run its course.

> Yup, this is really really weird. I confirm nothing is selected when the
> pasting happens. In summary, my situation is:
>
> Windows XP SP3
> Office Professional 2003 SP3
>
> All pictures copied from other sources (including Print Screen) and pasted
> via Ctrl+V or paste command or paste special commands give an empty
> placeholder the size of the picture that was supposed to be pasted.
>
> Pictures can be seen in Office Clipboard (even in Powerpoint), as thumbnails.
>
> Pictures can be pasted by Ctrl+V into applications like Word, and copied
> from Word (but not Paint) into Powerpoint.
>
> Objects like Excel Spreadsheets and Charts cannot be inserted into
> Powerpoint slides. Initially the chart/spreadsheet is visible, until the
> values of the tables are finalized (by clicking outside the spreadsheet/chart
> table). Then the chart/spreadsheet also turns into an empty placeholder.
>
> ???

>
> "Steve Rindsberg" wrote:
>
> >
> > Weird ...
> >
> > One other thing ... make sure that nothing is selected when you do the paste.
> >

[정재훈]

I had a similar problem.
I got the answer from
http://www.techtalkz.com/microsoft-office-powerpoint/457945-i-can-only-see-x-my-powerpoint-slide-wmf-graphics.html

Sounds like you don't have write access to the "Temporary Internet
Files"
folder (or it even doesn't exist). Open the Windows registry, go to
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer
\User
Shell Folders" and check the "Cache" value. You might want to set it
to
something like "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files".

[Jeremy]

Hi 정재훈,

Thanks very much for the advice! I've struggled with this and another
apparently related problem for the last few weeks (gosh, its been that long).
The problem is now FIXED, as of last night. I only checked back today so I
could let everyone know what's wrong.

정재훈, you're right! The problem was that I was unable to access the Temporary
Internet Files folder. Once that was fixed, everything came back.

To anyone else who might be having this problem, if your Temp Internet files
folder is on some network drive or that's unavailable or something, you may
still see some dummy folder appear (for me it was in C:\Documents and
Settings\Username\Temp\Temporary Internet Files), but you will experience the
Powerpoint problems I've described above.

Additionally, you may experience horrendous messages with Word like "You are
working without a Word Work File. Please save your work." And find that the
last hour's work is KAPUT.

You'll fix these problems if you can restore access to the Temporary
Internet Files folder (for some strange reason). Case closed! Thanks to Steve
and 정재훈 for your help.

PS. Not sure if it is related, but I also encountered problems saving Word
documents - initially suspected it was Endnote (a reference manager). Saw a
forum post somewhere suggesting running Word from the Run command with
"winword -a" to remove all COM add-ins and whatnot. So if you are
experiencing more near-paranormal stuff with your MS Word 2003, that's
another thing to check out. So far, EVERYTHING is fixed, though - not sure
exactly how, but I'm glad it is.

That's all folks!

"정재훈" wrote:

> On 4월7일, 오전3시31분, Steve Rindsberg <ab...@localhost.com> wrote:
> > Given the symptoms, a call to GhostBusters might be in order.
> >
> > But first, choose Help, Detect & Repair and let that run its course.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Yup, this is really really weird. I confirm nothing is selected when the
> > > pasting happens. In summary, my situation is:
> >
> > > Windows XP SP3
> > > Office Professional 2003 SP3
> >
> > > All pictures copied from other sources (including Print Screen) and pasted
> > > via Ctrl+V or paste command or paste special commands give an empty
> > > placeholder the size of the picture that was supposed to be pasted.
> >
> > > Pictures can be seen in Office Clipboard (even in Powerpoint), as thumbnails.
> >
> > > Pictures can be pasted by Ctrl+V into applications like Word, and copied
> > > from Word (but not Paint) into Powerpoint.
> >
> > > Objects like Excel Spreadsheets and Charts cannot be inserted into
> > > Powerpoint slides. Initially the chart/spreadsheet is visible, until the
> > > values of the tables are finalized (by clicking outside the spreadsheet/chart

> > > table). Then the chart/spreadsheet also turns into an empty placeholder..