I had a weird anamoloy in Excel where the quick keys [Ctrl]+C was not
copying, instead it appeared to randomly delete a column of data. A very
undesirable effect. So to correct the issue I went to the add/remove
programs and selected the Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003, then
clicked "Click here for Support" and selected "Repair". The repairs process
took <10minutes and corrected this strange behavior. Hope this helps.

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Any number of things could prevent copy/paste.

What happens instead of copy and paste working?

Message that you can't do this?

Nothing? Excel shuts down?

Nothing on the clipboard?

Please give us a hint.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:11:00 -0800, chicago1
wrote:

why would the copy/paste function stop working on a spreadsheet