Reinstalling isn't difficult and does fix some problems but, generally
speaking, if a repair hasn't solved the problem a reinstall probably won't
either.

I don't know what may cause the problem (and I don't know what you consider
a soft boot); all I can do is offer some thoughts and maybe some things to
try.

You say you can't paste - is that any item?. What a paste does is
effectively a dual action, copying from the Office clipboard to the Windows
clipboard and pasting to the destination. As you can paste normally (from
the Windows clipboard) it must be the copy from the Office clipboard that is
failing.

You say the office clipboard continues to appear with contents intact - does
it continue to gather copied items?

Can you delete individual office clipboard entries - or delete all / clear?
Can you do a paste all?
Can you use the office clipboard normally in other office applications?
If any of the above work, do they affect later actions in any way?

Is it a particular type of data that triggers / causes the problem? Or
always in a particular document (or a document based on a particular
template)?

If this always happens around the same time, is there something else happens
around that time? Or does it appear to be a cumulative effect of just doing
'too much' copying? Does the clipboard contain 24 items when it fails?

Sorry not to be more helpful.

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Enjoy,
Tony


"Richard" wrote in message
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It continutes to appear with it's contents intact however, unable to paste
from it. A soft reboot doesn't fix the issue since the next morning with
a
hard boot fixes the problem. I think we're going to be reduced to a
reinstall rather than spend more time on the issue.

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

Does it stop *functioning* - or stop appearing?

If it happens every day that implies it works again after (a) a restart
of
Word (b) a reboot or (c) some overnight process. Which might it be? -
does
closing Word and reopening restore it? - or rebooting?

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Enjoy,
Tony


"Richard" wrote in message
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I have an installation of Office 2003 on one of my desks with an end
user
that uses the clipboard taskpane heavily. Every day around 2:00 the
clipboard stops functioning. He still has the ability to cut and
paste
the
normal way just not through clipboard. I've tried running a repair
office
and that didn't seem to work. Any thoughts?