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Certain Microsoft Excel copy/paste functionalities stop working

altquant opened this issue · comments

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Hi, CL3 is great but I am having a few conflicts when using it in conjunction with Excel.
I am working on a Windows 10 machine with Excel 2016.

  1. Copying formulas no longer works. If I copy a cell that has a formula and paste into another cell, it pastes only the value. Note that it does paste the formatting, just not the formula.

  2. if I try to copy an entire row or column, I get an error message "the picture is too large and will be truncated". I still end up being able to copy the row, but the error message is unexpected.

  3. if I copy a single cell and paste it into multiple cells, the default Excel behavior is that it pastes all the cells with the cell I copied. With CL3 on I instead get a message that "the data you're pasting isn't the same size as your selection. Do you want to paste anyway?". If I select OK only the single cell is pasted.

Can anyone corroborate these issues and if so, are there any workarounds / plans to make CL3 more compatible with Excel? Otherwise I will have to resort to disabling CL3 every time I work with Excel. Thanks a lot.

commented

That is a known issue and due to the AutoReplace feature/plugin - if you check the tray menu there is probably a checkmark ✔️ before AutoReplace to indicate it if is active. If so, uncheck it and pasting in Excel should no longer be an issue.

If you do use AutoReplace you can add excel.exe to the "Bypass" setting: bring up the CL3 menu, Special, AutoReplace - that should bring up the AutoReplace GUI where you can define the find/replace actions. There you can add a comma separated list of programs to exclude.

That said, if you don't have any Find/Replace actions in there adding excel.exe and saving it won't do much good as it won't save it in that case - this is a bug. I'm working on an update - mostly focusing on the ClipChain to allow the user to set the hotkey to "paste next item" in the chain (currently also ^v) - I'll update AutoReplace to:

a. by default include excel.exe
b. save correctly even if there aren't any Find/Replace actions
c. deactivate AutoReplace by default (currently it is Active by default)

Probably in the next few days.

For reference - Excel + AutoReplace is mentioned although briefly https://github.com/hi5/CL3/blob/master/changelog.md#v143

commented

The above is now available in v1.95