John

To attempt to resolve the files not opening..........

Before re-installing Office try to re-register Excel.

Close Excel first and
On the Windows Taskbar

1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK.
2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.
See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.

The clipboard is full problem........

see:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;196620
XL97: "Cannot Empty the Clipboard"


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On 10 Feb 2005 10:31:44 -0800, "John C" wrote:

Hi: I was wondering if anyone has any ideas regarding a problem I am
encountering with a colleague's Excel that she is running. Anout 9
months ago we upgraded to XP an since then she has had severe problems
doing basic tasks. Often she gets error messages staing that her
clipboard is full and then she can't cut/paste. Lately when she goes
to open a doc Excel can not find the directory and she has to go
through Windows explorer to open something. Our tech dept. (we are a
remote office) is at a loss and we think we have to just re-install
office. If there are any ideas we would appreciate them.

John/P&O Neddloyd