My Excel 2003 fills clipboard wth screendumps by itself

[JonJon]

When using Excel 2003, after a few minutes' use, the application collects two
copies of the screen (as an image), and appears to be trying to add further
copies. This results in the application consuming 100% of CPU resources
(according to Task Manager), making it very difficult to exit the
application, and no work can be done.

 

[dhouston]

Same problem here, in all of Office 2000 (and Outlook 2003). Clipboard
appears to fill with current screen captures, and cannot be emptied in either
the task pane or clipbook (clipbrd). Any effort to delete seems to allow new
screen captures to fill the space. Began in the last few days.

 

[JonJon]

Agree it appears to affect any application using Clipboard, so attacked the
"PrtScn" button looking for a hardware problem, with an inconclusive result
(laptops are closed up tight). Do you think it sensible to pursue this
approach further?

 

[dhouston]

If you search this board for clipboard and screen, you'll find the other
discussions of the issue. The consensus is that something is tripping the
prntscrn action on certain keyboards. Indeed, when I replaced my wireless
keyboard with a wired one, the problem went away.

I am not at all convinced that this is a hardware problem; what are the odds
that all of us have experienced a physical problem with a little used key
that sits quietly off to the side? Rather, there is some sort of software
bug related to keyboards that require special software (wireless, media,
etc.). Everyone also reports the problem began only after long use of the
keyboard, which would indicate that MS did something that has rendered them
useless.

No solution seems to be forthcoming, though, so my beloved wireless media
keyboard is effectively bricked.

 

[JonJon]

Thanks for the tip about others' problems: I am sure I did not see more than
10% of posts that directly or indirectly referred to this problem, but there
were certainly several. I tried removing my much-loved wireless keyboard and
mouse - no difference. Also found that loading VBA behind my documents
delayed the onset of the attack for a while, but not for long.

Whilst I have been fiddling with computers for 30 years, I am a naif as far
as the ability of the internet to solve problems is concerned. Do we just
hope someone with power to make a difference notices our whinges?