“The Clipboard cannot be emptied. Another program might be using the Clipboard” Oct 2012 Office 2010 Excel.

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Some of our users get this error when working on xlsx spread sheets, The Clipboard cannot be emptied. Another program might be using the Clipboard.”

This occurs on different spreadsheets on a company SOE. I myself have also experienced it and have disabled various add-ons as per some of what the forums suggest. Various forums suggest various fixes – from what I can gether thus far is there is no silver bullet fix for this as of yet. Microsoft from what little results appear in Bing or Google don’t show much – I was hoping for someone to advise if this fix had been rolled up in fix or patch…

Can anyone also advise if this error appears for them and what they did to fix it – if fixed at all?

Many thanks in advance.

Ps. Here are some links I have attached.

http://www.treeplan.com/clipboard-cannot-be-emptied-error.htm

http://www.fmsinc.com/MicrosoftAccess/Errors/ExcelPaste/Clipboard.html

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-excel/the-clipboard-cannot-be-emptied-in-excel/4b367423-6c7b-4fc7-9203-23c866255d60?page=4

http://excelribbon.tips.net/T009810_Cant_Empty_the_Clipboard.html

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1wyab60d(VS.90).aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=The%20clipboard%20cannot%20be%20emptied%20in%20Excel&ac=8

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Anonymous

2012-10-15T19:25:53+00:00

Is the computer on a domain/network?

Does the issue happen with shared Excel files?

Check if the issue occurs while working with un-shared Excel files that are stored locally on the computer.

If the Excel files are accessed by multiple users over a network, you may post your query in the Excel IT Pro forum, for better suggestions on this issue.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/excel/threads
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Anonymous

2012-11-02T12:58:02+00:00

This is a real nuisance. It is not related to "shared" files. None of my files are shared. It doesn't actually prevent the pasting activity, but the repeated false errors are annoying.
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Anonymous

2012-11-14T13:14:20+00:00

Maybe some other programs IS using the clipboard. Start the computer in clean boot and then see if you’re able to copy-past in excel without issues. Clean boot should disable all other third party apps.

Refer this link - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

If it copying works fine in clean boot, then you should do trial and error to find out which app is causing the issue. Try enabling the ones you suspect the most and check the status to find out.
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Anonymous

2013-01-01T05:23:40+00:00

I have found that this error message when I try to drag and drop cells in Excel and have Bing Desktop running. As soon as I exit Bing Desktop, the problem goes away and I can drag and drip cells in Excel without any problem. I am running Office 2010 and Windows 7.
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2013-01-07T17:15:12+00:00

I have found that this error message when I try to drag and drop cells in Excel and have Bing Desktop running. As soon as I exit Bing Desktop, the problem goes away and I can drag and drip cells in Excel without any problem. I am running Office 2010 and Windows 7.

Bing desktop was my culprit as well. Closed Bing desktop, it worked. Opened it back up, same error.
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