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Browse All TopicsI am consistently getting a "Cannot empty clipboard" error in Excel 2007 after a drag and drop. Copy and paste does not produce the error. The same error ocurs using Excel 2007 on both my Vista desktop at work and my XP Pro notebook. I was able to cure the error on the Vista machine by running a Disk Cleanup, but cannot cure the problem on the XP machine using Disk Cleanup. A workaround appears to be to load Excel first and then with Word, etc. since the error does not occur. However, if Excel opens after Word and/or Outlook and/or IE, the error occurs. None of the posted solutions for this problem on on this site or any other site work. This problem also seems to have started after installing XP SP3, since it had not occurred previously on the XP machine. The error does not occur in Word. Microsoft Office TS appears baffled.
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