Having trouble with copies (being treated as embedded objects)

[NowWhatHaveIDone200]

I have a system with Windows XP Professional installed. I recently installed
an old version of Microsoft Office 2000 Premium and have developed a problem.
I noticed that sporadically and for long periods of time I could not copy
cells in Excel as I would get strange error messages. I downloaded an open
source spreadsheet and then realized the same problemwas sporadically
happening to that program thus indicating a possible Windows XP problem. I
have now discovered that simple copies of cells within the spreadsheets are
being copied as embedded objects instead of the straight-forward cell copies
that should be happening. This happens for say 70% of time I attempt to do
copies of cells. Sometimes the problem disappears. At first I thought it was
related to having Powerpoint 2000 running in the background as when I closed
Powerpoint Excel copies worked as expected for a long period. Now however
when I run spreadsheets I run them as the only application running and the
problem of copies being copied as embedded objects continues. Using the
clipbrd viewer and deleting what is in the clipbrd does not help the problems.
Has anyone any thoughts as to the problem and how it could be fixed? A
system without realiable copy functionality is virtually worthless.

 

[db]

office also works
in safe mode.

might try and see.

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[NowWhatHaveIDone200]

Whatever the problemis, it appears related to the install of version of MS
Office 2000 on my Windows XP Professional system. I subsequently downloaded
Open Office as I needed a workable spreadsheet and could not use Excel
usefully. Much to my surprise Open Office exhibited the same problem of
copying cells within a worksheet as embedded objects. In frustration, I
deleted MS Office and now Open Office works fine. It looks like somehow the
MS Office install impacted Windows XP functionality for copy/past in that it
affected other programs running on the operating system even when Office
programs were not running. So now I have a spreadsheet solution that works
again but this is not a good solution for me. Excel has some features such
as its Solver implementation that I'll miss. However, an open source
spreadsheet with less features that works is much preferable to an MS Excel
with more features that doesn't.