I'm in the process of replicating this issue and will keep you posted.

Thanks for providing the video... I am in the process of seeing if this issue is present in 2.x series and will update you as I have more information.

Any updates on reproducing this in-house?

I have XP SP3 and I have the latest Tools and I'm seeing the same TIFF copy/paste behavior from PC Excel 2007 to Numbers -- cell(s) pastes a TIFF into a single cell in Numbers

Other tests:
URLs luckily paste as text back and forth
Rich text from PC Word 2007 (bold, italic, strike-thru) is pasted as rich text in TextEdit, formatting preserved.
Tables from PC Word 2007 are pasted properly as a editable table in TextEdit.
Multi-cells from Numbers '09 are pasted in properly as distribute cells into PC Excel 2007.

Single cell from PC Excel 2007 s pasted as a TIFF picture in Numbers '09, TextEdit, etc.
Multi-cells from PC Excel 2007 end up as single TIFF cell in Numbers '09 or image in TextEdit.

Intra-VM test: Multi-cell section from PC Excel 2007 pasted into PC Word 2007 (same VM), pastes as editable table (not TIFF).

Summary: Copy source of PC Excel 2007 ends up as TIFF image in multiple Mac applications.

Just a quick update, we now have a PR on this issue.

Yes,

I had found that work around before but it is not 100% reliable and sometimes it just doesn't work. If I am not the only one experiencing this, is this indeed a bug that is being addressed. I have already opened a new case, but the tech wants me to completely remove VMTools, remove Fusion, clean all directories from both the guest and the host, then reinstall everything. Not something I am looking forward to, I have better things to do at times, only to find out that this is indeed a bug and my efforts will be wasted.

Just wondering.

Derek

A PR is an internal VMware bug report meaning an issue has been opened and is being tracked within VMware for disposition and hopefully resolution.

Let me ask this straight: Fusion 3 has introduced new ways of handling the copypaste. Is what we experience a feature, really? Because if so then the only thing I can hope is that the devs will put an option in the preferences to turn the behavior off.

I'm have a paid license, I also paid for the 40 bucks upgrade fee, I'm always living with the latest release, never downgrade. If I have to open a Notepad, I will open a Notepad windows and do the extra work. Sometimes it's a solution, other times it is not. I have been a Parallels user previously and I'm not going back and I will never downgrade or reinstall. That's for the lousy Windows.

I have patience, Zen is what I am while I wait for this issue to be resolved with these obscure two letter acronyms like "PR" ticket.