We could not copy the content to the Clipboard, it is in use by another application. You can still paste your content within this workbook but it will not be available in other applications.

Thanks

I'll try that. How come Microsoft haven't addressed this. The problem has been identified for a long time and yet there is no response from them.

You must be kidding me. The way in which we must sort this unpleasant issue out is just, being polite, improbable. If you guys know that, in many cases, the copy-paste function in Excel may behave like this, just SORT IT OUT.

Your proposal is like going to the doctor and reporting sickness and the answer you hear is, "don't worry, just go to medical school and in six years, you will have a much more clear your problem ...".

Speechless.

I guess either Microsoft don't view it as a major problem or not enough users have reported the problem. Either way it needs fixing.

I'm with you on this. There is no reason for another app to be using the clipboard, so that's not the answer. What I would say though is that excel isn't actually frozen for me, it's just that the active cells that you are in aren't highlighted. So to fix that, if you click in a cell or three and then press esc, the highlighting returns.

While I'm no expert, just another user, I have a thought... If you're on Windows 10/11 and you're using the cloud clipboard feature (Win + V), perhaps Excel is having trouble in trying to copy / paste multiple cells to the shared clipboard (perhaps because the shared clipboard doesn't know how to store/process multiple copied cells). Try disabling the shared / cloud clipboard feature and copy/pasting multiple cells in Excel and see if the problem still occurs. If it doesn't, then it's a compatibility issue between the two software's clipboard function.

I do not use the Cloud for anything except the occasional up/dowload from OneDrive.