Thanks Sam. I'm actually trying to copy/paste the features from one feature class into an existing feature class, not create a new one. This was straight forward in ArcMap: start editing, select, ctrl+C, ctrl+V and done.
This is what happens when I click on a feature to select it in the attribute table. The drop down arrow for paste special is grayed out. When I click Paste, it copies the whole layer, not the selected features.
![pastespecial.JPG](/legacyfs/online/88178_pastespecial.JPG)
It works fine selecting them with the Selection tool so I'm not sure why selecting features another way is not working.