Excel 2003 - Cannot paste across workbooks

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One of the employees in my office cannot copy and paste between open
workbooks in Excel 2003. If she selects a range in one workbook and then
switches to another workbook, paste not offered as an option -- "Paste" is
grayed out, inactive. Then, if she goes back to the original workbook, the
range is still selected, but the dancing dotted line (the one that indicates
that the range is being held on the clipboard for pasting) has stopped
dancing. It is as if the act of switching workbooks deactivates the copied
selection.

I checked to see if opening a new workbook was opening a new instance of
Excel, but it was not. Besides, if that were the case, Excel would just try
to paste as an object, not totally block the ability to paste.

Possibly related to this is the fact that every time she opens Excel, it
offers her a document recovery window, as if Excel crashed the last time she
closed it.

I have run "Detect and Repair," and it took several minutes to complete,
spending a fair amount of time accessing the original installation media.
After it finished running, the problem continued, unabated.

Is there anything else that I can try short of uninstalling and re-installing?
 
B Green said:
I have run "Detect and Repair," and it took several minutes to complete,
spending a fair amount of time accessing the original installation media.
After it finished running, the problem continued, unabated.

Is there anything else that I can try short of uninstalling and re-installing?
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We have completely uninstalled and reinstalled, but the problem continues,
unchanged.

Any help? Please? The only work-around she has is the use "Move or Copy
Sheet" and edit out all the parts she doesn't need, but that can be quite
time consuming if all she wants is a dozen cells out of the middle of a large
sheet.

Any ideas? Registry keys that could need resetting? Anything? Pretty
please?
 
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