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Ron_Greiner
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Jan 03, 2023

Clipboard Busy

Hello,   I am having trouble copying am Excel Chart to Publisher.  I get an error message saying Publisher cannot communicate...and secondly that the Clipboard is busy.
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ErikDavidsson
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Apr 23, 2025

If anyone else has this issue when copying from Word to Publisher:
Open registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common
and change the Reg_Dword32 named SaveThumbnails with value 1 to 0

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