Why is figure cropped when copying to Powerpoint

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When I copy a figure from MATLAB R2016a to PowerPoint 2013 running on Windows 10, the figure is cropped as shown in the image below. Perhaps the most frustrating thing is that up until this morning, it has never done this, and now I can't seem to fix it. I've tried restarting MATLAB, PowerPoint, and the computer. How can I resolve this issue?
My clipboard format is set to 'Preserve information (metafile if possible)', my figure background color is set to 'Force white background,' and I have tried checking and unchecking the match figure screen size option. When I save to an enhanced metafile, the behavior is the same, although if I save to an eps file, the entire figure is captured as it should have been. I'm using a 2015 Apple MacBook Pro 15" with an AMD R9 M370X GPU, with two 4K monitors attached. For what it's worth, I was not using an external monitor last night when it was most recently working, although it has worked in the past when attached to monitors.

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Ray Bond
Ray Bond on 16 Jun 2016
The issue seems to be related to the display scaling settings. When I disconnected the displays and restarted, it worked fine, but once I plugged in the displays, it started cropping the images again. I then looked at the display scaling settings for Windows, and found that one of my monitors said "Some apps won't respond to scaling changes until you sign out," even though I hadn't changed the display scaling settings. When I clicked on sign out now, and logged back in, that warning was gone in the display scaling settings dialog, and figure copying worked normally again.
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Ido Marzel
Ido Marzel on 28 Jan 2020
Same here. Setting windows to "fix blurry apps" fixed the cropping problem on Win10, MATLAB 2016, Power Point 2016.

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