Clipboard problem in Excel 2016

I'm sorry, what is the solution? I'm having similar issues with Office 2016 (build 7466.2038) on Win10 home.  Pasting content from other programs into Excel is reeeeally slow, and the stupid clipboard error comes up EVERY time I drag a cell.  Cut and paste is OK.  This is a brand new PC with nothing else installed but Win10 and Office2016, so there's no-one to blame but Microsoft.  Come on !!  Get your act together.

Hello!

I have to concur with this.... I have been running VirtualBox on my computer, and when I close out I no longer have the issue.

So it's obvious that another program was hijacking the clipboard functionality, but I certainly assume not everybody in this thread is specifically running VirtualBox (as I have the bi-directional clipboard function turned on).

The only thought that comes to mind for other users, is to run Excel only without other apps running (to verify the clipboard error message goes away), and to open up other apps you normally use one at a time alongside Excel. It's possible you might find the app that is conflicting with the clipboard. At least you would know who the culprit is.

Ensure you're not running apps in the system tray that could access the clipboard, like Screenshot type apps for instance.

Hello Freya,

I can confirm that I am also seeing this new pop-up message "There's a problem with the clipboard, but you can...". I see it only in Excel 2016. I am running Windows 10 1607 14393.447, Excel 2016 (Office 2016 version 1610 build 7466.2038) on a recent clean install of Windows 10 and Office 2016 with not much 3rd party software. In my case, roughly 1 out of 4 CTRL+Cs results in this message. However, I do not get it just once - I get it repeatedly. Rapid CTRL+Cs seem to provoke it especially.

As others have suggested, on my system, I have traced it down to another application intercepting the clipboard - in my case, it was VirtualBox. Shutting down all VirtualBox VMs immediately fixes the problem in Excel, but having one or more VMs running, even if the host-guest clipboard integration feature is disabled in that VM, causes the problems in Excel.

I will raise this with VirtualBox. However, anecdotally, many applications that hook in to the clipboard (eg. Skype click to call integration and others) seem to upset Excel specifically (and not just version 2016). This is not just an Excel issue, but it seems from Freya's comments that the Excel team is aware of it, and trying to mitigate it somewhat. If this message could genuinely come up once per session, or be optionally dismissed permanently, that would be preferable.

A while back on this blog I saw mention of this clipboard problem being caused by ZoneAlarm anti-virus (W10/Office365 environment).  I also reported other problems but I decided to remove my Zone Alarm a few weeks ago and I am no longer receiving the clipboard error message.  I still have some minor "disappearing cell boundary" issues but nothing like my previous experience.

So if you are using Zone Alarm security you may care to test the effect of removing it.

Hello everyone. Good that this topic is being discussed. I will have to tell you what I've concluded so far.

I am running Windows10 Home 64-bit on Lenovo V310-15isk lap-top.

1. This problem is NOT RELATED TO EXCEL nor MS OFFICE. I've tried Office 2007, 2010, 2013 and 365. In each of them some other program is using Excel Clipboard. This isn't happening in Windows 7.
2. Excel Clipboard works perfectly after restarting. Clipboard works normally. Approximately 5 minutes after restarting, some program starts using Excel clipboard.
3. If I start Excel immediately after restarting, the clipboard will work fine for 5 minutes, and then interfering begins. If I start Excel 5 minutes after restarting PC, clipboard will not work immediately, which means that the program that uses Excel clipboard runs independently from Excel. In other words, Excel didn't start some macro or other program that is using clipboard.
4. It could only be some driver or program in Windows 10 which causes this. DEFINITELY some other program is using Excel clipboard.
5. Finally, MS Word clipboard works fine. There is no interfering with Word's clipboard. Copying from Excel to Word works fine also, but it isn't working from Word to Excel.
6. What I will try is to disable drivers, one by one and then try working with clipboard.

I will attach pics in my next post.

And let me add, I have a FRESH copy of Win 10, with only first update performed and absolutely no other programs installed which could interfere with clipboard.