topic Re: Paste Special UI not showing correctly in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Paste Special UI not showing correctly

JeromeHaaland — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:55:32 GMT

The UI for Paste Special opens as shown below. It is unusable like this. Is there a secret keyboard shortcut to maximize a UI window in ArcGIS Pro?

Re: Paste Special UI not showing correctly

DanPatterson — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:56:23 GMT

Use Paste Special with the clipboard—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

just a keyboard shortcut to open paste special

but preconditions exist regarding the options that show

Re: Paste Special UI not showing correctly

Scott_Harris — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:33:18 GMT

Maybe something is going wrong with the size of the window, which I think can be "reset" by having Pro create a fresh ArcGISSettings.xml file by navigating to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\ESRI\ and then renaming the ArcGISSettings.xml to ArcGISSettings.xml.old.

You should get help with that process through Esri Technical Support.

Re: Paste Special UI not showing correctly

JeromeHaaland — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:35:34 GMT

Thank You Scott

I just tried your suggestion... it did not work... but was worth a try.

Re: Paste Special UI not showing correctly

Scott_Harris — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:02:00 GMT

Bummer... I tried to see if some combination of Pro UI scaling or Windows text scaling would cause it on my end, but couldn't see what you see in your screenshot. Is there anything unique about your system in regards to display? For example, are you using a remote desktop connection or something like Citrix? Maybe something with your graphics drivers? Maybe try switching the rendering engine that Pro uses to see if that has some effect (Options > Display > Rendering Engine)?

Re: Paste Special UI not showing correctly

JeromeHaaland — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:02:18 GMT

Thanks for all the effort, Scott... it would be nice to be able to use Cut and Paste 🙂

The PC is a Lenovo laptop X1 Carbon with a 13 Gen i7 Processor and integrated graphics card Intel Iris Xe Graphics.

No remoting or screen sharing or anything like that. Just using ArcGIS Pro directly on my laptop.

I am not going to worry about it for now.

Have a Good Day