Excel Paste Special

[Old_Geezer]

Spreadsheet playing up. Suddenly I copy cells and the cells, don't get that blinking dashed outline any more. I select elsewhere on the worksheet and try 'paste special' in order to paste formats, and hilariously it offers just unicode text or text every time, as if I'd just copied a bit off text. Affects all spreadsheets as far as I can tell.

Anyone any solutions ?

I did spot a suggestion on the Internet that closing the browser might work; tried it and predictably it didn't. Very annoying.

TIA

[Buenchico]

Try repairing Excel:
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Repair-an-Office-application-7821d4b6-7c1d-4205-aa0e-a6b40c5bb88b

[Old_Geezer]

Thanks for the suggestion but:

Not allowed to fix Excel alone, the only choice is Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003.

It seems to come up with some gobbledegook about error 1919 configuring ODBC data source. Visual FoxPro Database error 13. System error code 126. vfpodbc.dll. I've no idea what it is on about, the file isn't in system32 anyway, so will need to 'ignore' it. And when I do it asks again, and the second 'ignore' it just closes. Unfixed.

Don't think I want to uninstall. I figure that's just asking for problems. Nice try though. Cheers.

[Old_Geezer]

Obviously 2 weeks since I last updated a spreadsheet. Seems to have cured itself ?!?