Can anyone else reproduce this problem? Is there a known solution other than
"don't do that"?

If I copy a region (1 or more cells) in Excel and then open another Office
product (I tested Word, Power Point, and Access) while the copy border is
still blinking, then Excel closes without warning (and without closing Excel
Help if it is open). When I reopen Excel, there will only be an attempt to
recover if the document was edited for a long enough period of time for an
autosave to occur.

This appears to be the reproducible conditions for
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...5b1fb7307342d8
which generated no traffic, and may also explain
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...134c202b87c1a1

My best guess (assuming that it is reproducible on other machines) is that
it has something to do with office products initializing the Office Clipboard
when they start. Does it also plague other versions of Office?

I have Office 2003 SP2 and Win XP Pro SP2 on an HP T5600 Centrino Duo laptop.

Jerry


P.S. Another report of Excel closing unexpectedly
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...048c625ef1dff5
may be due to a different mechanism