Can't paste an object - will fall off the drawing area?

thank you

You may also try Ctrl/Cmd+A to see what you have, and maybe have a surprise.

If you are using Paste in Front/Back, it honours the zero point set in each document, so if your zero points are different, it will definitely place in an unexpected place.

I had a similar problem (also using cs5), but I could not find my solution anywhere on the internet so I thought I would drop it here.

The error message in question would occur when I tried pasting a graph from Excel to AI. I had no problem with other graphs, but this one graph in particular kept giving me the error. Turns out I had an erronious value of a very large quantity as part of the graph, let's pretend it was 99,999,999,999. Even though it was being "clipped out" in Excel by using a date range that occurred outside of the erronius data point, when the graph is coppied into AI, the data extends back to that data point and shot the graph "off of the drawing area". Got rid of the data point and the problem was resolved. 

Image below shows how information is stored beyond the <clipping path> of the graph pasted into AI.

This is super helpful. I had released guides, and then didn't delete the two anchor points when I deleted the guide. So, I used the lasso to select my drawing, then went to the toolbar and hit Select>Inverse then hit the delete key to delete those two points out in space. Problem solved. Thank you!

Thanks for this info.  If you don't want to clear all your guides, just make sure you delete or move any guides out from the layers you are trying to copy/paste.  Worked for me. 

I usually put all my guides on a separate layer but sometimes I accidentally create one in a layer containing artwork. This happened to me on this file and so when I selected all my artwork layers (accidentally including a guide) and tried to copy/paste them, it gave me this error due to the guide being in there.

Simply do the following:-

View->Guides->Clear Guides

It resolves the problem.

hm sadly all these solutions did not work for me. There are no guides in my scene and yet everytime I paste something it will offset to the right and below.

Delete Every thing Just remain the object in artboart which we can't copy & paste. Press Ctrl/Cmd+A & out zoom as much as possible then to see what you have in artboard. Just delete inner or outer Artboard Objects What u dont want. then usual way to copy & paste...... If it works Click like !!