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Mr_Palenoff
Mr_Palenoff

Reputation: 41

"This command is not available." error occurs when trying to execute PasteAndFormat function

I published the VSTO app, where I copy a Range with a formatted text.

On most users machines the application works properly while some users have the error "This command is not available." thrown whenever the following piece of code is being excetuded.

  var sourceDocument = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument;
  sourceDocument.Range().Copy();
  Document documentOld = new Document();
  documentOld.Range().PasteAndFormat(WdRecoveryType.wdFormatOriginalFormatting); //here the error occurs
  Document documentNew = new Document();
  documentNew.Range().PasteAndFormat(WdRecoveryType.wdFormatOriginalFormatting);

Could you recommend me something? Should I check any settings of the Word App on the User's machine?

Your help would be highly appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1362

Answers (3)

Yeshurun Kubi
Yeshurun Kubi

Reputation: 136

Certainly it is an old post, but as it been unanswered, and this issue is truly relevant for VSTO add-in, I must answer it, after dealing with the same problem.

Sometimes, I don't know why, using PasteAndFormat will cause an error, and will crash the app. The error is This command is not available.

The solution for that is using another approach instead of Copy() & PasteAndFormat but still keep the original formatting:

documentOld.Content.FormattedText = sourceDocument.Content.FormattedText;

Upvotes: 1

blincoln
blincoln

Reputation: 9

Try disabling Windows clipboard history (Start => Settings => System => Clipboard, turn Clipboard history off). We have some similar macro code here at work, and for some reason the clipboard history feature interferes with it. I assume it's a resource contention problem, like the clipboard history code is locking access to the clipboard briefly.

Upvotes: -1

Davit Escobedo
Davit Escobedo

Reputation: 21

Seems like sometimes the PasteAndFormat / Paste Special in Word is disabled upon creating a new Document. This can be reproduced manually in Word opening a new document, copying something to the clipboard and checking the paste options menu:

working

Not-working

What I do in order to counteract this, is to do a normal paste, then delete the content and then use the PasteAndFormat.

Upvotes: 0

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