Microsoft Excel cannot paste the data

Hi,
I have a user that is working on a Vista Terminal Server with Excel 2010 on it. The user will copy a large amount of data in Excel 2010 and try to paste it into Excel 2010 on his local machine being Win 7 and Excel 2010. Sometimes it works, for
example if the terminal server has just been rebooted, but then most of the time Excel locks up and throws this error "Microsoft Excel cannot paste the data". Has anyone ever had this problem and if so, have an answer for the problem? Anyone have
any suggestions? Could it possibly be the clipboard?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank You!

I had to create an acct here just to reply in hopes I could help others with this error as it was driving me nuts.
There is one solution I have not seen suggested, that I determined I could reproduce 100% of the time for the messagebox error of "Microsoft Excel cannot paste the data" either between workbooks, worksheets, or even within the same worksheet.
I wonder how many of these folks have clipboard managers/enhancers running? Even though there is no legitimate reason a simple paste even of unformatted cells of only values would still result in the above error, but in my case having CLIPJUMP running
and simply maintaining clipboard history of multiple entries, a simple single data item paste from Excel, to Excel, results in this Excel error.
My clipboard manager <tries> to grab formatting, as do many others, which is why I believe some posted workarounds involving pasting into another app and back have helped.
So, even though they may not ever conflict with anything.....disable <anything> that touches the clipboard in <any> way, and from what I can tell that will solve many occurrences of this error since different clipboard managers/enhancers
have become more and more common.
Simply shutting down my clipboard manager for the time I use Excel has 100% eliminated this error.

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