How can I disable dialog box in Word 365 "Do you want to keep the last item you copied?"

Hi RrravenGrrl,

As I’ve replicated this concern at my end using a Word document, I’ve got encountered the same dialog box. This seems to be by design in Word or could also be with other Office applications when copying a huge amount of texts, pictures, shapes and other objects that may be added with the size of the file. It’s an action taken by Word to ensure that it will be copied accordingly. Here’s the repro video that I’ve prepared to show this behavior.

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I have seen this solution suggested but it would take just as long to copy a single character as it would to close the dialog box, so I don't think that really works.

Holding the Shift key and using the left (or right) arrow to select a single character and then pressing Ctrl+C would actually be rather quick (at least if you frequently make use of keyboard shortcuts for various tasks in Word).

You're most welcome. There other suggestions provided by Stefan Blom aside from the one provided by Suzanne S. Barnhill and posting in programming. Should you have other concerns that we can assist you, don't hesitate to let us know.

Regards.

Louie Del

As an alternative, you can press the N key (for "no") when you see the prompt.

If you want to post a suggestion for an option to disable the prompt in the first place, you can do so in the Uservoice forum at https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application.

If anyone else would like to vote for this idea, please do!

https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/37235857-option-to-disable-do-you-want-to-keep-the-last-it

We appreciate you for sharing the UserVoice link. Additionally, once our engineers are making headway into solving the dialog box that’s popping up, they'll add a "Working on it" tag on your post, and they'll regularly post updates about it as well. Should you have other concerns that we can assist you with, don’t hesitate to let us know.

Regards.

Louie Del