Run-time error '1004': Microsoft Excel cannot paste the data

Question

I have looked up the question and have seen several solutions addressing things like Select or having protected worksheets, none of which apply to me here.

For various

Answer 1

On moving to Office 365 and Win10 (can't say which of those was the culprit) I found a bunch of existing macros which would give that same error when trying to paste a copied image onto a worksheet.

When entering debug, the "paste" line would be highlighted, but if I hit "Continue" it would (after one or two attempts) run with no errors.

I ended up doing this:

'paste problem fix
Sub PastePicRetry(rng As Range)
    Dim i As Long
    Do While i < 20
        On Error Resume Next
        rng.PasteSpecial
        If Err.Number <> 0 Then
            Debug.Print "Paste failed", i
            DoEvents
            i = i + 1
        Else
            Exit Do
        End If
        On Error GoTo 0
        i = i + 1
    Loop
End Sub

...which looks like overkill but was the only reliable fix for the problem.

EDIT: cleaned up and refactored into a standalone sub.