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blackout376

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Copy and Paste Issues
« on: July 18, 2016, 12:53:34 PM »
So I work with visio 2013 on pretty much a daily basis.

To make a long story short I've run into a bug: When I try to use ctrl + c to copy a shape and then use ctrl + v to paste it onto another page, visio no longer pastes it into the exact same location it was at on the original page.

Things I have tried to fix it:
-Closing the drawing and reopening
-Closing the program and reopening
-Installing updates (had some pending)
-Restarting computer
-Shutting off all visio related services and then reopening the program

Things I have not tried:
-Reinstalling visio 2013 (IT manager is out of the office today and I don't have the software readily available to try a reinstall.)

Hoping one of you has a solution to this random and obnoxious problem.

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Re: Copy and Paste Issues
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2016, 11:49:30 PM »
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visio no longer pastes it into the exact same location it was at on the original page.
As far as I know Visio used to paste it on the center of the view of the window.
« Last Edit: July 19, 2016, 12:27:20 AM by JuneTheSecond »
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blackout376

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Re: Copy and Paste Issues
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2016, 10:24:52 AM »
Visio 2013 has never done that. When you use the ctrl + v command to paste something on a new page, it is supposed to paste it in the exact same location it was in on the previous page, given that the page measurements are the same.

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Re: Copy and Paste Issues
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2016, 10:32:40 AM »
According to the Visio 2013 SEARCH results for "Paste," Ctrl-C and Ctrl-P should work as you describe, pasting the copied object in the same location on another page.  It works that way for my version of 2013.  Ctrl-C and Edit-Paste will paste it in a different location.

Are you certain the page setup --- size, margins, etcetera --- is set up identically?  Have you tried doing this on a fresh file, or doing a tab Duplicate, then copy and paste between the two (identical) tabs?
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Re: Copy and Paste Issues
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2016, 12:31:30 PM »
See this earlier, related topic:  http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=7339.msg30879#msg30879

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Re: Copy and Paste Issues
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2016, 03:37:08 PM »
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See this earlier, related topic:  http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=7339.msg30879#msg30879

Not quite the same issue but the same fix may work...just wish Microsoft would get their shit together and fix what is most definitely a program breaking bug.