Copying and pasting pages not working

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
May 17, 2021
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Hi everyone,

I am trying to copy pages from one PDF to another. On my old computer I'd select the pages on the left then use CTRL + C and It would show a cut line around the pages that were copied. Then I'd CTRL + V when moving my mouse under the page where I want the pages to go, and it would create a blue line. I just got a new computer and now when I do this it does not copy or paste. I have to drag from one to another.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Edit and convert PDFs

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Tater Salad

Participating Frequently

Spent several weeks off and on with IT trying to solve this riddle. Finally scheduled a meeting with Adobe tech. She fixed it.

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Paul328633058i02

New Participant

I am also having trouble copying pages. The copy and paste functions are greyed out and unusable, and there don't appear to be any security settings that would prevent page copying.

rrichey4430

New Participant

This is absolutely a bug that needs to be fixed. The copy and paste mechanism in "Organize Pages" only works once or twice, and then I have to restart Acrobat Pro in order to get it to work again. This is VERY frustrating when working with large documents that need a lot of restructuring.

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Daniel34445202ty9w

New Participant

Agreed. If this has been a problem for more than a year, Adobe should have fixed it by now. Is this due to overwhelming the clipboard buffer? I noticed that it happens more often when I copy larger numbers of pages.

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RTyrell

New Participant

Try restarting Acrobat. This worked for me.

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Matthew28021174as9e

New Participant

This is the only fix I have found but the problem persists, sometimes not long after restarting it. If anyone has a permanent solution, please post.

gary_sc

Community Expert

If you wish to Copy & Paste pages, you do that from the left side-panel. [Note: be sure to select a page before looking for Copy or Cut. To Paste a page, it should be available AFTER you cut or copy a page.