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I cannot see the Paste Special option in my Visual Studio 2017 Professional Edition:

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2017

Version 15.4.5

VisualStudio.15.Release/15.4.5+27004.2010

Microsoft .NET Framework

Version 4.7.02046

In this blog post it is shown for Visual Studio 2013. On my machine, the edit menu appears as below:

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Is there a way to get back the option? Do I need to enable this option somehow?

Peter Mortensen
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MJK
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  • Works on my machine. But I've avoided keeping it updated, life's too short. Use Help > Send Feedback > Report a Problem. Beware that you'll have to provide better repro steps than you did here or they'll ignore it. – Hans Passant Dec 01 '17 at 14:04

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I have missed an important step. There is nothing wrong in Visual Studio 2017. I was not in a .cs file.

Peter Mortensen
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MJK
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Another possible answer to this problem is the WCF component is not installed in Visual Studio.

demongolem
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The Paste Special option will not show if you are debugging.

I stopped my application and the Paste Special option appeared right away.

This was in Visual Studio 2017, but I assume it would be the same for all versions.

Lauren Rutledge
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