If you try to copy data from Microsoft Outlook to another application on your device, you may receive the error message “Your organization’s data cannot be pasted here.” An error will occur if you try to copy data from Outlook to an unauthorized device. This article explains the causes of this error and offers several solutions.

Users have noticed that this error usually appears in newly created documents and can occur on Windows, Android and iOS devices. However, this article will only focus on Windows.

What causes this error?

Our research has shown that you may receive a “Your organization details cannot be pasted here” error message when you try to copy company data from Outlook or another managed app to any other app installed on Windows 11/10.

Prevent data from being copied is a security feature provided by Microsoft Intune and available in Microsoft Intune Policy Management.

However, in some cases, an error may also occur when copying data to an authorized application. If so, the error may be caused by an outdated Outlook or Office app on your device. Updating the application will solve the problem.

You may also receive the message “Your organization’s information cannot be pasted here. Only 25 characters are allowed.” This error means that you have exceeded the maximum number of characters that can be inserted at one time.

Before you try one of our solutions, exit the app that is throwing the error and restart your device. If the problem persists, try the troubleshooting methods below.

Fix 1: Manually update Office.

First, you can try updating your Office package manually to fix the “your organization’s data cannot be inserted here” error. Here are the detailed steps:

Step 1: Close all Office applications on your computer.

Step 2: Type Microsoft Store in the search field and select Open.

Step 3: Sign in to your Microsoft account that was used to link your Office license.

Step 4: Click the three dots icon in the top right corner and select Downloads & Updates. Step 5: Click Get Updates to begin checking for and installing all available Office updates.

Fix 2: Recreate the Office document (applies to Excel)

You can then try to re-create the Office document to get rid of the “Your organization’s data cannot be pasted here” error message. This can be done like this.

Step 1: Start creating a new Excel file.

Step 2: Now select the cell and make some changes. So save it.

Fix 3: Change Microsoft Intune security policies.

You can also try changing the Microsoft Intune app protection policy. To do this, follow these steps:

Step 1: Sign in to the Microsoft Intune control panel.

Step 2: In Control Panel, click Client Applications on the left.

Step 3: In the left pane of the Client Applications screen, go to the Application Protection Policies section.

Step 4: Click the “Create Policy” button to create a new policy, or from the list of policies, select the corresponding policy installed on your device to edit it.

Step 5: If you are creating a new policy, you will need to provide additional information such as Platform. You’ll find this feature in Settings > Data protection > Data transfer.

Step 6: Now in the Data Transfer section, change the Restrict Cutting, Copying and Pasting between other apps policy as per your requirement.

Step 7: Click OK to save the policy.

Final words

To solve the “cannot insert your organization details here” problem, this post shows 3 reliable solutions. If you encounter the same error, try these solutions. If you have better ideas on how to solve this problem, you can share them in the comments.

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