I believe a registry entry should do it. Under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\General

(for Office 2003. Use 10 for Office XP and 9 for Office 2000) create this
Dword entry:

AcbControl

and set its value to 1.

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Jim
"Ian Elliott" wrote in message
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| Thanks for any help.
| Everytime I start Excel, if I copy something "big", the office clipboard
| opens. I can then turn off Show Office Clipboard Automatically, but is
there
| a way so I can turn it off forever? So even if I quit Excel, then start
| again, and I copy something, it doesn't happen again? I looked in
| ToolsOptions but I couldn't find anything. Maybe some code if necessary?
| It's a hassle to do this everytime.