Silly little annoyance

Greetings all,

Silly little thing that bugs me. I'd like to turn off the prompt I receive
whenever I exit Excel (2003). If I have previously used the Windows
Clipboard to copy ANYTHING, be it the contents of one cell or a whole
spreadsheet, Excel just has to ask me whether or not I want to keep a
"large" amount of data in the Clipboard for use with other applications. YES
YES YES, just stop asking me every time I exit Excel!

Thanks for your help. Happy Holidays!

Larry

If you hit the Escape key before you close excel, do you get the warning.

larry wrote:

Greetings all,

Silly little thing that bugs me. I'd like to turn off the prompt I receive
whenever I exit Excel (2003). If I have previously used the Windows
Clipboard to copy ANYTHING, be it the contents of one cell or a whole
spreadsheet, Excel just has to ask me whether or not I want to keep a
"large" amount of data in the Clipboard for use with other applications. YES
YES YES, just stop asking me every time I exit Excel!

Thanks for your help. Happy Holidays!

Larry

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Dave Peterson

Dave, yes that stops the annoying warning dialog, but I DO want the
contents to remain in the Clipboard, I just want Excel to stop worrying and
completely ignore what is or isn't in the Clipboard when I exit.

Thanks,

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
If you hit the Escape key before you close excel, do you get the warning.

larry wrote:

Greetings all,

Silly little thing that bugs me. I'd like to turn off the prompt I
receive
whenever I exit Excel (2003). If I have previously used the Windows
Clipboard to copy ANYTHING, be it the contents of one cell or a whole
spreadsheet, Excel just has to ask me whether or not I want to keep a
"large" amount of data in the Clipboard for use with other applications.
YES
YES YES, just stop asking me every time I exit Excel!

Thanks for your help. Happy Holidays!

Larry

--

Dave Peterson

I don't think you can turn this behavior off.

You might be able to use a macro to dismiss the warning, but just running a
macro causes the clipboard to be cleared.

And then instead of being irritated by having to click to dismiss the dialog,
you'd be irritated by having to run the code.

And this ain't much of a tip, but you can hit the Y key if your fingers are on
the keyboard.



larry wrote:

Dave, yes that stops the annoying warning dialog, but I DO want the
contents to remain in the Clipboard, I just want Excel to stop worrying and
completely ignore what is or isn't in the Clipboard when I exit.

Thanks,

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
If you hit the Escape key before you close excel, do you get the warning.

larry wrote:

Greetings all,

Silly little thing that bugs me. I'd like to turn off the prompt I
receive
whenever I exit Excel (2003). If I have previously used the Windows
Clipboard to copy ANYTHING, be it the contents of one cell or a whole
spreadsheet, Excel just has to ask me whether or not I want to keep a
"large" amount of data in the Clipboard for use with other applications.
YES
YES YES, just stop asking me every time I exit Excel!

Thanks for your help. Happy Holidays!

Larry

--

Dave Peterson

--

Dave Peterson

Thanks Dave.

I just don't understand why Excel thinks one cell or one row is "a large
amount of information." Must be some sort of holdover from the days of Excel
4.0, Windows 3.1 and 386 processors. :-)

Larry


"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
I don't think you can turn this behavior off.

You might be able to use a macro to dismiss the warning, but just running
a
macro causes the clipboard to be cleared.

And then instead of being irritated by having to click to dismiss the
dialog,
you'd be irritated by having to run the code.

And this ain't much of a tip, but you can hit the Y key if your fingers
are on
the keyboard.



larry wrote:

Dave, yes that stops the annoying warning dialog, but I DO want the
contents to remain in the Clipboard, I just want Excel to stop worrying
and
completely ignore what is or isn't in the Clipboard when I exit.

Thanks,

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
If you hit the Escape key before you close excel, do you get the
warning.

larry wrote:

Greetings all,

Silly little thing that bugs me. I'd like to turn off the prompt I
receive
whenever I exit Excel (2003). If I have previously used the Windows
Clipboard to copy ANYTHING, be it the contents of one cell or a
whole
spreadsheet, Excel just has to ask me whether or not I want to keep
a
"large" amount of data in the Clipboard for use with other
applications.
YES
YES YES, just stop asking me every time I exit Excel!

Thanks for your help. Happy Holidays!

Larry

--

Dave Peterson

--

Dave Peterson

Larry

Or maybe a holdover from Version 2(1987) which was designed to run on Windows
2.0(1987) and 80286 processors.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:02:28 -0700, larry wrote:

Thanks Dave.

I just don't understand why Excel thinks one cell or one row is "a large
amount of information." Must be some sort of holdover from the days of Excel
4.0, Windows 3.1 and 386 processors. :-)

Larry


"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
I don't think you can turn this behavior off.

You might be able to use a macro to dismiss the warning, but just running
a
macro causes the clipboard to be cleared.

And then instead of being irritated by having to click to dismiss the
dialog,
you'd be irritated by having to run the code.

And this ain't much of a tip, but you can hit the Y key if your fingers
are on
the keyboard.



larry wrote:

Dave, yes that stops the annoying warning dialog, but I DO want the
contents to remain in the Clipboard, I just want Excel to stop worrying
and
completely ignore what is or isn't in the Clipboard when I exit.

Thanks,

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
If you hit the Escape key before you close excel, do you get the
warning.

larry wrote:

Greetings all,

Silly little thing that bugs me. I'd like to turn off the prompt I
receive
whenever I exit Excel (2003). If I have previously used the Windows
Clipboard to copy ANYTHING, be it the contents of one cell or a
whole
spreadsheet, Excel just has to ask me whether or not I want to keep
a
"large" amount of data in the Clipboard for use with other
applications.
YES
YES YES, just stop asking me every time I exit Excel!

Thanks for your help. Happy Holidays!

Larry

--

Dave Peterson

--

Dave Peterson

Just to add to Gord's reply...

It may depend on how you categorize "a large amount". Remember that excel will
keep track of the formula, values, and formatting for that copied range. And
that could be lots of information.



larry wrote:

Thanks Dave.

I just don't understand why Excel thinks one cell or one row is "a large
amount of information." Must be some sort of holdover from the days of Excel
4.0, Windows 3.1 and 386 processors. :-)

Larry

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
I don't think you can turn this behavior off.

You might be able to use a macro to dismiss the warning, but just running
a
macro causes the clipboard to be cleared.

And then instead of being irritated by having to click to dismiss the
dialog,
you'd be irritated by having to run the code.

And this ain't much of a tip, but you can hit the Y key if your fingers
are on
the keyboard.



larry wrote:

Dave, yes that stops the annoying warning dialog, but I DO want the
contents to remain in the Clipboard, I just want Excel to stop worrying
and
completely ignore what is or isn't in the Clipboard when I exit.

Thanks,

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
If you hit the Escape key before you close excel, do you get the
warning.

larry wrote:

Greetings all,

Silly little thing that bugs me. I'd like to turn off the prompt I
receive
whenever I exit Excel (2003). If I have previously used the Windows
Clipboard to copy ANYTHING, be it the contents of one cell or a
whole
spreadsheet, Excel just has to ask me whether or not I want to keep
a
"large" amount of data in the Clipboard for use with other
applications.
YES
YES YES, just stop asking me every time I exit Excel!

Thanks for your help. Happy Holidays!

Larry

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Dave Peterson

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Dave Peterson

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Dave Peterson