might be helpful. Your question is a little bit difficult to understand as it is posted. It sounds like your are trying to use some version of Microsoft Excel, but I'm not really sure what the master copy refers to; please post more specifics of the exact steps that you are performing and the program you are using when the problem occurs.
Copy and paste in vista shouldn't be any different than they were in XP. Alternatively, you might try posting to the Microsoft Office forum if your problem does involve Excel.
while coping and pasting from windows vista at work the new copy that i was working on was putting information i had already stored as a desktop icon into that desktop icon and i lost that previous weeks worth of information how can i keep this from happening to another weeks worth of work,, when i copy and paste from the master copy??, have been learning on my own- i keep doing it week after week going on about 2 months now. i protect my worksheet after entering any information and save it-- when im done w/that week i drag it to the desktop thinking it'll be there and i can line my weekendings up then for a new week i click on the master copy click copy highlight it and then clisk again until i see paste come up then i drag it to the desktop, rename it for that coming week and start putting in figures where they belong and then save and i'll go check to make sure i didn't change any numbers and my old weeks worth of work now has new numbers that i just put in my new week -on them all of them (desk top week files)does anyone have any ideas?? or am i just wasting my time and need to tell my boss???

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