Copy-Paste with keyboard shortcuts broken in Advanced Editor

[BlobBlobHopHop]

Since a while back, I cannot copy code from the Advanced Editor anymore. I can right-click and select copy, but I cannot use ctrl + c (or ctrl + x). The clipboard does not get updated. When I paste afterward, my previous clipboard item gets pasted.

I can use it fine in all other settings in PBI: copy visuals, copy whole queries outside the advanced editor, copy from the dax editor. It is just in the Advanced Editor it is broken.

How can I fix it? Or is this a general Power BI Desktop issue?

[BlobBlobHopHop]

My colleagues have the same issue.

I created a gif to show the issue:

Version: 2.93.981.0 64-bit (May 2021)

[BlobBlobHopHop · Accepted solution]

I have identified the issue. Apparently Power BI uses Internet Explorer internally in several locations.

One of these occasions is OAuth login through a custom connector. But for one of our data providers, log in through IE is blocked. To work around that, we had set the user agent to "iPad". That made our connector work.

But because the Advanced Editor also runs on Internet Explorer, the user agent hack apparently breaks some features there. Among them the ctrl + c behavior. 

This also explains why no one else outside our organization had the same issue. We have changed the user agent once again, to one that works for both the Advanced Editor and for OAuth login.

[Greg_Deckler]

@BlobBlobHopHop I am not seeing this issue. On:

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2.93.981.0 64-bit (May 2021)