Office 2000 clipboard troubles crashing Excel!

[aoede9]

We (unfortunately) still use Office 2000 at my office. I have this problem
that's been slowly driving me crazy for a while-- when I have another Office
program open at the same time as Excel (usually Outlook), Excel will
spontaneously close without saving data or asking if I want to do so.

I've noticed recently that this corresponds with whether or not I have
something on the clipboard-- if I have copied a cell (for instance, an email
address) and I open a new email message OR any Word document, Excel will
close. If I have nothing on the clipboard, it seems to be alright.

Yesterday I got an error message telling me that my clipboard couldn't be
cleared. It was right after I started up my computer and there was only one
thing on it. After restarting, the error message went away, but Excel
continued to close without warning.

What might be causing this, and is there any way to fix is outside of
updating my software?

 

[DL]

You might look in the win Events log (Adminastrative Tools) see if / what is
shown there at the time of occurrence
You might also try booting your PC into safe mode & see if the problem can
be replicated