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Cannot empty clipboard"
Hi I've had a scout around Microsoft's website and also Google without much success. Does anyone know why Excel 2002 should periodically come out with the error message "Cannot Empty Clipboard" when dragging and dropping cell data. Something's not quite right, but I can't put my finger on it. Any thoughts anyone? Thanks -- MartinShort Software Tester ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MartinShort's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=22034 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=558931 |
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Hi Martin Here is a website that address the same problem, maybe it will help you out http://www.experts-exchange.com/Appl..._20805544.html -- jetted ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jetted's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=17532 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=558931 |
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Hi The only problem with that website is that they insist on charging lots of money to view the solution... :( -- MartinShort Software Tester ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MartinShort's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=22034 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=558931 |
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How 'bout..
application.cutcopymode = False "MartinShort" wrote in message : Hi The only problem with that website is that they insist on charging lots of money to view the solution... :( -- MartinShort Software Tester ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MartinShort's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=22034 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=558931 |
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Hi I don't what your talking about here is there solution; Hi srej, I see the same error on my Excel 2000 at home and Excel 2002 here at work. Usually, it occurs when I have an overlapping range (e.g. pasting A1:D5 to B1:E5). As long as I acknowledge the error message, it allows me to proceed. Brad Comment from srej Date: 11/21/2003 04:32PM PST Author Comment byundt, thanks for responding, but I think my error is a little different. The error message pops up even if I just copy one cell or even the format of a cell and it will not allow me to paste even after I click "OK" on the error message. It's like it never makes it to the clipboard. Comment from pkhari Date: 11/22/2003 01:41AM PST Comment Hi, There are a few steps to solve your problem: First thing to do is Clear items from the Office Clipboard. If the Microsoft Office Clipboard is not displayed in the task pane, click Office Clipboard on the Edit menu. On the Office Clipboard task pane, do one of the following: To clear all items, click Clear All . Next thing is to switch off the clipboard show option. To do this, what you can do is to again display the Clipboard menu (select Office Clipboard from Edit Menu). And in the selection button "Options" at the bottom of the screen, select this particular option: "Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard" and now, you are relieved of the bug. Hope this helps. Cheers P.K. Comment from pkhari Date: 11/22/2003 03:54AM PST Comment Hi In case my above solution does not work, why dont you try an earlier solution given in the below linK: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Appl..._10053878.html Hope this helps Cheers P.K. Comment from byundt Date: 11/22/2003 08:39AM PST Comment P.K. The Edit menu in Excel 2000 does not expose the Clipboard object. I suspect you are using Excel 2002 or 2003. Brad Comment from srej Date: 11/24/2003 04:23PM PST Author Comment Yea, you can just use View Toolbars Clipboard to show the clipboard, but I don't see the options you are talking about ("Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard"). If you know how to do this on Excel 2000 please let me know so I can test it. Administrative Comment from modulo Date: 12/29/2003 01:45PM PST Administrative Comment A request has been made in Community Support to close this question: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Comm..._20836656.html If there are no objections, a moderator will finalise this question after 72 hours by: - PAQ-ing the question and refunding points Please leave any recommendations here. modulo Community Support Moderator Experts Exchange Accepted Answer from Computer101 Date: 01/01/2004 08:07AM PST Grade: A Accepted Answer PAQed, with points refunded (75) Computer101 E-E Admin Comment from roos01 Date: 06/06/2004 08:30AM PDT Comment found a macro to empty the clipboard. not sure if it is for use of you. Public Declare Function OpenClipboard Lib "user32" ( _ ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long Public Declare Function CloseClipboard Lib "user32" () As Long Public Declare Function EmptyClipboard Lib "user32" () As Long Sub ClearClipboard() OpenClipboard (0&) EmptyClipboard CloseClipboard End Sub regards, Jeroen Comment from pkhari Date: 06/12/2004 03:57AM PDT Comment Hi all Just found a good way in attempting to solve my own "Cannot empty the clipboard" error. In all probability, when you have Getright or Flashget software installed in your machine, it is likely to cause this error. Open that software, and just uncheck the option "Monitor the clipboard", and come back to excel. Now it should be ok. Just thought of sharing this with all of you. Cheers P.K. Comment from roos01 Date: 06/13/2004 10:39AM PDT Comment Thanks PK for sharing this. never thought about 3rd party software causing suchs problems also. Comment from osg192 Date: 02/07/2005 03:38PM PST Comment I am experiencing this problem too. In my situation it is being caused on the host PC by terminal services (remote desktop). Host is running Windows XP service pack 2. Excel: Excel 2000 ver 9.0.3821 SR-1. RB Comment from LoveToSpod Date: 10/03/2005 02:44AM PDT Comment I had this problem and the errors have now stopped. When I opened Excel, I was prompted to save or delete 'recovered files'. If I deferred dealing with this, and chose 'I wish to view these files later' I got the error. Cleardown these recovered files at Excel startup, by either saving or deleting them. This sorted the problem for me immediately. Hope this helps, LoveToSpod -- jetted ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jetted's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=17532 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=558931 |
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Thanks for the notes. It seems to be doing it intermittently today with no rhyme or reason as to when - Typical!! A few comments though: - I am definitely _not_ running getright or flashget (in fact I was aware of this as a possible cause but had already discounted it in my case) - Whilst the insertion of a macro into the start-up procedures for Excel is a possibility, surely this shouldn't be necessary - this is curing the symptom rather than addressing the cause!! - I have tried the suggestion of checking the "Collect without showing the office clipboard" and haven't managed to form any opinions as to whether it's working or not. If I get something more definitive, I'll report back here. In the meantime, I'd like to leave this open as I still feel that there must be someone out there who knows the reason *-why-* this is happening. (Back to the cause rather than only addressing the symptoms!) Many thanks to all who have responded so far Martin -- MartinShort Software Tester ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MartinShort's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=22034 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=558931 |
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I am using Microsoft's Virtual PC in a training environment.
All student computers in our Office 2003 course get a local copy of the same original Virtual PC VHD (virtual hard drive) files. These files have been working for some time. Beginning this week, everyone experienced the same error being discussed in this thread. Drag and Drop, format painting, complex autofill with formatting, all present the "Cannot Empty Clip Board" error, then complete successfully after pressing "OK". I have attempted everything I can find here, or through Google, except for the Terminal Services hotfix and nothing is addressing the problem. It is possible that Virtual PC is making the same RDP calls that seem to be causing problems for Terminal Services, but I am not certain of this. As a Mentor Instructor and Microsoft Certified Trainer for more than ten years, I have had my share of frustrations, but the lack of support on this issue is remarkable. Both the host system and the Virtual PC are current on service patches, hotfixes, etc. I have repaired my installation of Office 2003, I have tried many ways to clear the clipboard although it assures me that it is empty, I have deleted files in the users profile, I am working with a "Microsoft Only" image with no third-party add-ons. Here is a kicker... the "dirty" instance of Excel 2003 on the host machine works just fine, but the behavior of the application on the Virtual PC's (who's source files are Read Only) changed this week! Any thoughts would be vastly appreciated! -- - William Berger The BergerMan Mentor Instructor - MCT "MartinShort" wrote: Thanks for the notes. It seems to be doing it intermittently today with no rhyme or reason as to when - Typical!! A few comments though: - I am definitely _not_ running getright or flashget (in fact I was aware of this as a possible cause but had already discounted it in my case) - Whilst the insertion of a macro into the start-up procedures for Excel is a possibility, surely this shouldn't be necessary - this is curing the symptom rather than addressing the cause!! - I have tried the suggestion of checking the "Collect without showing the office clipboard" and haven't managed to form any opinions as to whether it's working or not. If I get something more definitive, I'll report back here. In the meantime, I'd like to leave this open as I still feel that there must be someone out there who knows the reason *-why-* this is happening. (Back to the cause rather than only addressing the symptoms!) Many thanks to all who have responded so far Martin -- MartinShort Software Tester ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MartinShort's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=22034 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=558931 |
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Hi William Are you saying you've applied or you haven't applied the hotfix as described in http://support.microsoft.com/?id=840872? For me I do use the RDC XP download on a 2000 client and I use it for connecting to Win 2003 servers. I think I need to try this one out without the fix and see if this is the cause. Thanks for your comment Martin -- MartinShort Software Tester & Musician ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MartinShort's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=22034 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=558931 |
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Martin,
I have not yet applied the hotfix in http://support.microsoft.com/?id=840872?. From within the Virtual PC, I have connected to the Microsoft Update site and installed all of the listed updates (working within VPC this took 3.5 hours!). However, I was concerned with applying the untested fix listed above since we are not actually involving Terminal Services and the Virtual PC setup used to work. This evening I will attempt the hot fix on a VPC with Undo Drives enabled. This way I can roll back if it does not work. -- - William Berger The BergerMan Mentor Instructor - MCT "MartinShort" wrote: Hi William Are you saying you've applied or you haven't applied the hotfix as described in http://support.microsoft.com/?id=840872? For me I do use the RDC XP download on a 2000 client and I use it for connecting to Win 2003 servers. I think I need to try this one out without the fix and see if this is the cause. Thanks for your comment Martin -- MartinShort Software Tester & Musician ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MartinShort's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=22034 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=558931 |
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The bane of VPC - do let me know the results. I use the products (mainly VMWare). I have to say I wholeheartedly that I agree with your comment: I have had my share of frustrations, but the lack of support on this issue is remarkable Thanks and good luck with the fix Martin -- MartinShort Software Tester & Musician ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MartinShort's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=22034 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=558931 |
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