Has anyone received the error "Cannot empty the clipboard"?

[Melinda]

I'm working remotely and am accessing my workstation from home. I've been
doing a lot of cutting and pasting into Excel spreadsheets and get to a point
where I get the message "Cannot empty the clipboard". It allows me to copy,
but not paste and I don't get the option to manually empty it.

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, how do you correct it?

 

[Nick Hodge]

Melinda

I suspect this is your issue

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899266/en-us

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
(e-mail address removed)
www.nickhodge.co.uk

 

[J]

I encounter the same message and error window working on a local machine (not
connected to a network or server and not using terminal services [unless
terminal services is automatically implemented on standalones]). Restarting
the program (Excel 2003) does not help; the machine has been updated using
all relevant MS updates. Restarting the machine does relieve the problem
momentarily. It is difficult to determine when the problem starts again, but
once it does, every cell drag/drop causes the message box to show up and
extends what should be a one step maneuver into a two step affair - in effect
it doubles the time to do all simple cell moves or copies.