I am using color banding to highlight active cells as explained he

Use color banding to locate the active cell
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...366231033.aspx

which I altered to highlight only horizontally, the current row from
cols A to Z

However, this has a side effect where if you press ctrl-c to copy a
cell or range of cells, and then click on a destination cell, ctrl-v no
longer pastes because the color banding code deselects the cells.

Is there a way to detect that ctrl-c has been pressed and excel is in
"copy mode" to disable the color banding, and then re-enable it after
the cells are pasted?