Outlook 2007 – Workaround for Copy Paste Issues

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It seems this is quite a common problem that you cannot copypaste properly in Outlook 2007, and whenever I've checked for solutions, I haven't found any.

Common scenarios where you run into this issue:

  • Copypasting from another program into Outlook message – nothing gets
    pasted into Outlook, but works when pasted into other programs
  • Copying an email address from a person's properties within Outlook, and pasting it into another Outlook message (eg. doubleclicking a name, and copying the address from the dialog)

Best Answer

This has now worked for me for the past week at work, while I used to run into the issue almost daily.

  1. In Outlook, open: Tools | Options | Mail Format | Editor Options | Advanced
  2. Go to the heading: "Cut, copy, and paste"
  3. Change the first four settings to "Keep Text Only"
  4. And also untick the box for "Use smart cut and paste"

Unfortunately I'm not sure which of those two things is the main issue, but with these settings I haven't had any issues with copypasting anymore.

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