1. Enable Clipboard Copy in VMWare Workstation
When you create a new VM, in my case I store my new VMs in Documents\Virtual Machines
directory, so for e.g. if I create the VM named wot_lab
then for that you have a file with extension wot_lab.vmx created as well. You can open <vm_name>.vmx file with notepad and to enable clipboard copy paste between host and guest you need to paste these two params:
isolation.tools.copy.disable = "FALSE"
isolation.tools.paste.disable = "FALSE"