Troubleshoot copying and pasting

I copied a slide, but I lost all the formatting on the slide.

A slide that you copy or insert takes on the formatting of the slides it's pasted or inserted after.

The text I pasted in from Word won't paste with the correct font size or font style, even when I choose to retain my source formatting.

When you paste text from another application, such as Microsoft Word or the Internet Explorer browser, and choose to retain the source formatting, Microsoft PowerPoint scales the font according to the default font size of the destination presentation. For example, if you paste 12-point text from Word into a subtitle placeholder in PowerPoint whose default point size is 32, the text will size to 32. Also, if you have pasted from Word using the default font, Times New Roman, the font style is not retained when you choose to keep source formatting. However, if you paste from Word using a font other than the default, that font style is preserved.

You can preserve original font color in both of these cases, however.

I just did a copy and paste, but I don't see the Paste Options button.

The Paste Options button does not show up in the following cases:

What's the difference between the paste options when I copy Excel data?

When you copy cell ranges from Microsoft Excel, you get the Paste Options button with choices to paste the Table, which pastes the data in a PowerPoint table format; paste the Excel Table (the default), which pastes the data as an Excel object; or paste the Picture of Table, which is the Excel table embedded at a slightly smaller file size. When you copy an Excel chart, you can paste it as an Excel Chart (the default) or Picture of Chart, which is the chart embedded at a smaller file size.

I copied and pasted using the Office Clipboard task pane, and the paste options I got are not what I expected.

The Office Clipboard gives slightly different options when you paste than if you paste from the Edit menu using Paste. For example, you don't get the option to Keep Text Only when you paste from the Clipboard. (Keep Text Only allows you to match the other text in the destination placeholder as opposed to following the current design template or the source formatting.)