Error Message 'Cannot empty clipboard'

[FarGardener]

I am using Office 2007 and recently when attempting to copy and paste within
Excel, and quite separately within Outlook and also from Outlook to Word, I
kept getting an error message telling me that the Clipboard could not be
emptied. If I clicked OK the message went away and I was able to paste, but
the message reappeared each time I tried to copy.

In the end I rebooted the PC and the problem did not recur.

Has anyone come across this and if so is there a solution?

Thanks

 

[Bob I]

Clipboard occur occasionally in Office 2003 also. Logoff and Logon and
end of problem.