Hi all,

I've got a severe problem. My Excel 2000 (with XP sp2) wil no longer copy
anything to another sheet of the workbook or another workbook.

I start Excel, open a new workbooks and type in a cel e.g. "aaa" (without
the ") and enter. All looks normal. If I click on that cell then with ctr C
and crt V (or with the copy buttons) I can copy its content to any other
cell on the same worksheet, but not to another sheet of the same workbook,
let alone another workbook. In that case I get no error message but only a
"plong"sound when I do ctr V. After that the copy in memory appears to be
erased because ctr V on the original sheet does not a thing anymore. I
noticed that after ctr C as soon as I hit enter the copy possibility is
gone, because I see that the corresponding copy buttons at once are grayed
out. That happens even right after ctr C when I hit the enter key. The gray
out occurs also as soon as I hit the tab of another sheet or switch to
another workbook.

Another strange thing is that when after ctr C I click another cell on the
same sheet and hit enter the same occurs as after ctr V, aaa is copied! As I
said, if I hit enter before I take the cursor (mouse pointer) away from the
original cell the copying process is aborted.

I tried to overcome this by going back to a system repair point (don't know
the proper English name) of almost three weeks ago - when the problems did
not yet occur - but to no avail.

I am in urgent need of help. Your advice will be appreciated.

Jack Sons
The Netherlands