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When cutting/copying some cells to paste them into another sheet/page, sometimes Excel freezes/locks up and fades out. At the top toolbar it says in brackets "not responding".
Eventually, I must click 'X' to close the program. It offers to wait for the program to respond, but never does – it just does nothing until I finally close it, where it offers to recover files etc.
Is there an issue with memory here? What can I do to stop it locking up?
1Old question, but I've found this problem disappears with the following solution: upload the spreadsheet to Google Drive, open in Google Sheets. Now you no longer have an Excel problem. – Lou – 2019-08-23T12:44:36.500
How much data are you working with when this happens? Does it happen when you copy a small amount or a large amount or both? What sort of data are you copying? Only values or also formulas? Have you tried copying something that froze before piece-meal to see if it freezes in smaller chunks? How often does this happen? – Raystafarian – 2012-03-05T12:08:57.907
@barry which windows system is it? – Psycogeek – 2012-03-05T12:43:40.110
lot to say.. im running windows 7.... it happens generally with larger rather than smaller volumes.... sometimes with formulas sometimes without....and it happens a lot?? – Barry – 2012-03-05T15:54:29.673