Are these the settings you are talking about? Are there others? Matt0987 Posts: 19 Joined: 19. Machine, Settings, General, Shared clipboard - Bidirectional. The small VB icon w/ the gold star at the bottom right corner. The guest additions are indicated as installed. treat executables with suspicion unless you are certain about the source). Apply basic common sense to the content of that folder (i.e. If you want to copy files between host and guest then designate a host folder as a shared folder in the VM settings. If you want to keep using the vim plugin, and have c and v work for copy / paste like it does.
There are the security implications of full file access for a start. Ctrl+A CTRL+C and CTRL+V Not Working in Windows 10 (3 Possible Solutions)One of the more irritating problems with the Windows command prompt is that you can’. I had this problem and it was driving me absolutely insane. It is quite rare when it pastes the text.
The free use of copy and paste between two PCs on a network is not as straightforward as you might assume. When I select some text and press Control-C and then Control-V, nothing happens in most cases. The previous behaviour allowed you to copy the whole line on an empty selection. You need to think of the host and the guest as independant PCs, as that is what they consider themselves. The alternative shortcut Shift + Delete doesn't work. It will only work if the Guest Additions are installed in the Guest. In this case, once you know the problem manifests itself outside of Excel, you've raises serious questions as to whether Excel could be the cause.Īll to say, next time you experience some deviation from expectations, do some quick tests with comparable programs or situations to see where the boundaries are between what's happening and what isn't.Mpack wrote:Copy and paste must be enabled in the VM settings. The goal at the start of Diagnostic Thinking is to describe the symptoms as thoroughly as you can so as to eliminate possible causes (hypotheses) that don't fit the symptoms.
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That list could have included other software you might be running.īecause as soon as it's clear that those keyboard shortcuts are not working in any of the Office suite of products, it becomes clear that it's not an "Excel problem" but that the cause has to be located elsewhere in the system.įinding a cause is potentially a lot more complicated than that.I've had instances where a device goes haywire after a period of time, say three hours works fine until then. In your case, that's why my first question was whether it was happening in Word/Power Point. One of the first step when you encounter a deviation from the norm is to get a complete description of what's happening, where it's happening, when it's happening AND, significantly, where it's NOT happening but might, when it's NOT happening but might. I used to teach diagnostic thinking to scientists and engineers. I'm glad it's resolved, or at least appears to be.