Copying and moving bug?

[terrypin]

When I try to move or copy any cell Win 10 spins its wheel for a couple of seconds and I then get the message:

"We couldn't free up space on the clipboard. Another program might be using it right now"

I close the message and the action proceeds corectly.

After an hour or so of googling I've still found no solution that works for me. Is there a truly reliable fix to this exasperating bug please? Or at least of isolating the so-called conflicting program, without unreasonable uninstalling?

Although I never encountered it in Excel 2000, it seems to have persisted unfixed by Microsoft for years in more recent versions.

Terry, UK

[mikeTRON]

How large is the file?
I get that from times when a worksheet is corrupted or absurdly large.

I would check the UESED RANGE on all of the sheets to see if any are much larger than needed.
I would also recommend counting how many volatile formulas you are using.

[terrypin]

Thanks. I'll check that but oddly (and happily) this morning so far it's not happening. Nor was it universal before, occurring only in that one spreadsheet (workbook? - see my post 'Spreadsheet or Worbook'). It wasn't particularly complex IMO.

I came to the PC this morning after it occurred to me that the cause might be that the cells in question contained hyperlinks, or - even narrower - links to files that were in my Dropbox folder. But, as mentioned, the issue is currently not reproducible.