I want to second this request.

This behaviour is just driving me crazy. Is there an option to turn it off?

This is a major problem, I upgraded to Fusion 3 today and I cannot live with the missing copy/paste. Time to downgrade back to version 2.0.6

VMWare, how could you let this happen, what ever happened to your QA department?

maztec, I think if you copy from within a cell in Excell, it will be text, but if it's larger selection, then image.

OK, people, listen up. I know this was a major feature overhaul in Fusion 3, I don't mind development and everything. At least the devs could provide a switch to leave pasting as it was before. (On the other hand I cannot think of a scenario where I want TIFF as a result of some cells copied from Excel.)

I sincerely hope devs see this thread as not some kind of a "I want the old Facebook design back" mirror, but a real and legit request.

Derek, please let us know what support has told you about the issue.

I apologize if you thought I was restricting my comment to Excel. I wasn't.

I have tried from everything. Consistently, if I copy more than roughly 160 characters I get a tiff. Wordpad = Tiff; Notepad = Tiff; OneNote = Tiff; Word = Tiff; WordPerfect = Tiff; CMD Line Text Window = Tiff; OpenOffice = Tiff! I shorten how much I copy, and I get text, but after a certain amount suddenly TIFF! Good lord, it could at least be a file format that is useful to me, but no, it's a TIFF - 90% of people can't figure out how to open it. Heck, half the time, what i am doing is posting into email - hwere it looks like text, but I send, and the person on the other end's response is, "What did you just send me?"

This is very frustrating.

hilld: I have had that happen a few times. I think it depends on what I highlight the text with, but haven't explored enough to really figure it out.

I uninstalled tools, reinstalled, still tiffs, I uninstalled tools & vmware, reinstalled, still tiffs.

Bah Humbug!