The picture is too large and will be truncated

Old bugs are super fun. If you’re using Excel and copy/pasting as little as one row, you may get the following error:

Windows dialog box with the warning icon. Error: The picture is too large and will be truncated

“The picture is too large and will be truncated” If you inspect the results, the copy/paste was successful, but Excel will throw this error every time you paste again. I encountered the error in the MS365 Excel desktop version.

Searching for a solution leads to many threads, some over 15 years old, with people complaining about the issue as far back as Excel 97.

The fix, for me, was the same as the 15 year old thread on Mr Excel: my clipboard manager (and fantastic autocomplete tool as well) FastKeys. Quitting FastKeys stopped the error, although annoyingly also disables autocomplete and auto-spelling-replacement (still can’t spell accessibility without it triggering).

Since this seems to happen with multiple clipboard managers, it looks like an Excel bug that is closing in on 20 years. Maybe backwards compatibility is oversold