Hi,
I found this post and hoped it would provide me with the answer I am looking for:
Re: Why is Smart paste (to DITA) disabled?
Unfortunately, the discussion seemed related to "DITA-FMx", which I am not using. Here's the problem I'm having...
I created some content using the simpletable element, but decided I would rather use the table element. So, I copied the rows from the simpletable to an empty table with the same number of rows. This pasted my content as invalid simpletable formatted rows. I checked the help documentation and discovered the Smart Paste menu item. I have tried using this menu selection to copy unstructured fm, excel, word, and html content but can not get an instance where the Smart Paste menu item is not grayed out. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but can not resolve this issue I'm having. I'm using Structured FM12. Please let me know if you need additional information and any help is appreciated. Thanks.