Cannot copy or paste to clipboard

I am unable to use the copy & paste feature of office. I am running Office XP
Pro / Windows XP Home / Frontpage 2003. Several months ago the problem
started when opening FrontPage 2000. I would get a "unable to copy icon"
error. Slowly the problem started affecting all programs trying to use copy
and paste. I replaced FP2000 with FP2003. I have run the repair of Office
with no change. Now all programs are being affected. I have seen other
message with this type of problem. Does anybody know what I should do???

Is the clipboard open for each office program? If not open it. I have found
that sometimes the office applications hide existing clipboard information.
Open the clipboard on each office application then close and open it again
and the stuff will appear.

[hrm222]

After searching many forums for the answer unsuccessfully, I finally found it!

I think the bottom line is that the clipboard just gets stuck or hung or whatever.

All I had to do was bring up Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del), go to the Processes tab, find rdpclip.exe, and kill that puppy ("End Process").

MAN, do I wish I'd found this hours ago -- what a frustrating day at work it's been!

Hope this works for you, too.

[janpag]

I have the same problem - the clipboard won't collect the item whichever way I try. I have tried finding rdpclip.exe in task manager - no success. Any other ideas?

[irenasobolewska]

Did you ever find the answer to this. It's suddenly started happening to me? I can't copy and paste anything anywhere - word, outlook, excel. And I don't have the rdclip.exe file running either. I have rebooted several times and that hasn't helped either.

[janpag]

I don't think I can be of help to you as it rectifys itself when I re-boot - which you have already tried - sorry!

[xXxMissyxXx]

Originally Posted by hrm222

After searching many forums for the answer unsuccessfully, I finally found it!

I think the bottom line is that the clipboard just gets stuck or hung or whatever.

All I had to do was bring up Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del), go to the Processes tab, find rdpclip.exe, and kill that puppy ("End Process").

MAN, do I wish I'd found this hours ago -- what a frustrating day at work it's been!

Hope this works for you, too.

WOW that worked ... thank you so much!