What OS?
What happens when you try to paste?

Is it just the shortcut or the edit->paste as well?

I am having the same problem in DW CS5/OSX 10.6.8. Started today, worked fine yesterday. Only change to system: There was an automatic firefox update that installed. I have run without firefox installed and going back 1 and 2 versions with no change.

Copy and paste still works in the properties panel. In the document pane in both design and code, paste(short cut, edit or contextual menu) do not work but the highlight and drag (move and option drag to copy) method still does but must be within the same document.

I can paste this info outside of DW, and when paste special is available in the contextual menu it works. this is not available in code view.

Have restarted and even full shut down MANY times. I have trashed all the preferences I could find that have been modified since yesterday. (and no I don't have time machine set up to go backwards)

BlowPurp,

I'm trying to not do a system install, but am wondering if it may have to do with something from the security upgrades on firefox. That was the only change to my system when it stopped working and I had elayed doing it for a few days, hence the timelime with the original poster. I also thought it may be a mac issue, but the original poster did not inlude their platform. Now I know its not a mac thing (adobe has dropped the ball with making the software work completely for the newer OSX).

The white space issue may be one of the quirky things that it DW does. It doesn't allow multiple spaces, but I don't get the line breaks. Is this DW to DW copying or from outside DW?

I guess we have to help ourselves.

I am also unable to get Paste to work in CS5.5.  It worked fine in CS5. I'm using 32 bit system w/ XP Pro. I've rebooted, but it does not work. I can not find the aforementioned directory - C:\Users\UserProfile\AppData\Roaming\Adobe.  It just is not on my computer.

I can edit my pages in coding mode just fine.. but when i copy and paste in design mode, i get a few <p> paragraph tags instead of the actual code i want to display. Did the deed in the preferences reovals, etc and this doesnt not solve the problem.

Really need a solution and a fix to this.

Have done this and it does not rectify my problem.

Here is the issue:

I copy for example:

<td>test text </td>

paste in another row and a new row is supposed to have the same thing. instead i get this:

<tr>

              <td>test text </td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

              <td><p>test text </p>

                <p></p></td>

            </tr>

this is a common occurance no matter what I do. even with images.

I cannot do any work effectively until this is resolved. I am basically stalled.

I seriously doubt the minor errors have anything to do with copying and pasting in design view.

This what happens in Design view not in code view

Here is the issue:

I copy for example:

<td>test text </td>

paste in another row and a new row is supposed to have the same thing. instead i get this:

<tr>

              <td>test text </td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

              <td><p>test text </p>

                <p></p></td>

            </tr>

this is a common occurance no matter what I do. even with images. I do not want to have to resort to exclusively copying and pasting in code view.. takes too long.

Tried all the above, including recreating config file, but nothing worked for me. Then realized it might be an operating system problem (use XP-Pro) and found a solution to that problem that involved deleting Skype Click To Call. (You don't have to delete the actual Skype program, just the addon.) After that, the paste function with formatting worked again. What a relief!

Re: non-working Paste function (Mac OS 10.6.8, DW CS5)

Called Adobe Support, got through annoying voicemail system to real person who spoke passable but not great English. He walked me through the steps below. HOWEVER, while DW was relaunching and I was waiting for it to update the site cache the call disconnected! Fortunately the fix work or I'd have been VERY unhappy having to go through the cumbersome phone process again.

As best I can remember, here's what he had me do (and it worked):

Quit DW

Go to Finder > Users > (my user name)

Open Library > Application Support > Adobe

Rename "Dreamweaver CS5" > "Old Dreamweaver CS5"

Go back to Library, then > Preferences

Rename "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Prefs" > "Old Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Prefs"

Restart DW.

Good luck!