That large data thingy message is from Office. Office doesnt put anything on the clipboard (except a pointer to itself) unless you exit office. Then it asks if it should replace the link to itself as a running program with the actual data.

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"Bill Martin" <wylie@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:eWEPTZhEGHA.3000@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> raymond wrote:
>> After 'cutting', is there a way to clear the Clipboard other than pasting?
>> The question arose because I 'cut' something on a CD using Windows Explorer.
>> Of course, I couldn't paste it, because you can't 'cut' something this way
>> from a CD, so I was stuck with something on the Clipboard I couldn't paste.
>> To clear the Clipboard, I 'cut' something I could paste and pasted it. This
>> is mildly onerous.
>>
>> Is there a hot key or something like that you could use to clear the
>> Clipboard instead?
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> In my limited experience the clipboard works in one of two ways:
>
> 1) Other people have noted that it's only storing a link to the data on disk so
> you don't care about it anyhow, or
>
> 2) If it is storing a large amount of info, XP badgers me to ask if I want to
> keep it or purge it. If I've copied a large amount of data from within a file
> for example -- rather than the whole file.
>
> Basically I wouldn't worry about it. If it's a lot of data XP will ask what you
> want done, and if it's not you don't need to delete it anyhow.
>
> Good luck...
>
> Bill