Unable to paste pictures from Clipboard into Powerpoint 2003

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Jeremy

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.
 
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
 
Hi Jean-Pierre,

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

Thanks

Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[ said:
Have you tried Ctrl+V to paste (after screenshoting?)
Jeremy said:
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.
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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.
 
Hi Steve,

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.

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

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









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PPT Frequently Asked Questionshttp://www.pptfaq.com/

PPTools add-ins for PowerPointhttp://www.pptools.com/
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I had a similar problem.
I got the answer from
http://www.techtalkz.com/microsoft-...y-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".
 
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!
 
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