Excel Automatically Clearing The Clipboard

A co-worker of mine is having a strange problem with the Excel clipboard.
When he highlights and copies a range, Excel will clear the clipboard and the
moving dotted line will vanish from around the copy area. This happens
anywhere from between 4 and 20 seconds after he copies. I've seen it happen
personally.

He has XL 2000, SP3. Is there a bug or setting in Excel that could account
for this?

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Hi MDW,

Are any macros being run?

Is there any event code in the sheet's module?


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Regards,
Norman


"MDW" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>A co-worker of mine is having a strange problem with the Excel clipboard.
> When he highlights and copies a range, Excel will clear the clipboard and
> the
> moving dotted line will vanish from around the copy area. This happens
> anywhere from between 4 and 20 seconds after he copies. I've seen it
> happen
> personally.
>
> He has XL 2000, SP3. Is there a bug or setting in Excel that could account
> for this?
>
> --
> Hmm...they have the Internet on COMPUTERS now!

Hi MDW,

Are any macros being run?

Is there any event code in the sheet's module?


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Regards,
Norman


"MDW" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>A co-worker of mine is having a strange problem with the Excel clipboard.
> When he highlights and copies a range, Excel will clear the clipboard and
> the
> moving dotted line will vanish from around the copy area. This happens
> anywhere from between 4 and 20 seconds after he copies. I've seen it
> happen
> personally.
>
> He has XL 2000, SP3. Is there a bug or setting in Excel that could account
> for this?
>
> --
> Hmm...they have the Internet on COMPUTERS now!

Not that I'm aware of.

This doesn't just happen to one file.

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Hmm...they have the Internet on COMPUTERS now!


"Norman Jones" wrote:

> Hi MDW,
>
> Are any macros being run?
>
> Is there any event code in the sheet's module?
>
>
> ---
> Regards,
> Norman
>
>
> "MDW" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >A co-worker of mine is having a strange problem with the Excel clipboard.
> > When he highlights and copies a range, Excel will clear the clipboard and
> > the
> > moving dotted line will vanish from around the copy area. This happens
> > anywhere from between 4 and 20 seconds after he copies. I've seen it
> > happen
> > personally.
> >
> > He has XL 2000, SP3. Is there a bug or setting in Excel that could account
> > for this?
> >
> > --
> > Hmm...they have the Internet on COMPUTERS now!
>
>
>

disable all add ins

start excel in safe mode. excel /s

see if it still happens

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Gary


"MDW" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>A co-worker of mine is having a strange problem with the Excel clipboard.
> When he highlights and copies a range, Excel will clear the clipboard and the
> moving dotted line will vanish from around the copy area. This happens
> anywhere from between 4 and 20 seconds after he copies. I've seen it happen
> personally.
>
> He has XL 2000, SP3. Is there a bug or setting in Excel that could account
> for this?
>
> --
> Hmm...they have the Internet on COMPUTERS now!