Excel Should STOP messing with my Clipboard

[Guest]

Please ... I can't stand the way Excel attempts (or succeeds) to empty my
clipboard whenever the focus changes. STOP IT!. Leave my clipboard alone.
Maybe I want to paste what I have in multiple places or just leave it there
indefinitely. It's none of your business. Stop emptying my clipboard ... Even
worse is the messages about "Excel cannot empty the clipboard" .. so what?
Stop it.

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[Guest]

Please ... I can't stand the way Excel attempts (or succeeds) to empty my
clipboard whenever the focus changes. STOP IT!. Leave my clipboard alone.
Maybe I want to paste what I have in multiple places or just leave it there
indefinitely. It's none of your business. Stop emptying my clipboard ... Even
worse is the messages about "Excel cannot empty the clipboard" .. so what?
Stop it.

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[Guest]

I always thought that this was a 97 annoyance.
The other day I installed Office 2003 on a fresh XP installation.
The first message that Excel displayed, was this 'cannot empty the clipboard'.

So the story continues...

 

[Bas V]

Need to end rdclip.exe process in taskmanager. That will stop the messgaes.
MS has not fixerd this annoyance, which exists in Excel 2007 also.

 

[Ian]

I'm getting the same problem in Excel 2007. I tried to end the rdclip.exe
process, but it's not even running.
I followed another suggestion to quit and re-open Excel, but no luck.
Is there any fix for this?

 

[Bas V]

the process to end is actually called rdpclip.exe - sorry about the errror.

This process exists on XP - don't know if it is present in Vista.

Here is a link from someone who has looked at some other options:
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/ms-office-tips/cannont-empty-clipboard/

 

[Ian]

Thanks for the info.
I'm running XP (in a Parallels environment) and rdpclip.exe wasn't even
running.
I checked out the suggestions you posted a link to, but none were really
appropriate to my system.
The old standard, rebooting, worked. Since then, the problem hasn't
reappeared. If it does, I think I'll stick the the annoying-but-safe reboot
until this gets addressed by The Powers That Be.