Error - Open clipboard failed

I am using Visio professional 2003. It was working fine. But now when I copy and paste any shapes it showing the error "Open clipboard failed". After that I am not able to change any properties or name.

When I try to close the window it is showing warning as "You cant quit visio program because a program is han开发者_开发技巧dling an event from visio. If VBA at break point, reset VBA, then quit"

Can anyone tell me what the problem is?

this has been a problem with Visio for 7 years and the last 3 versions of the product(Visio 2003 to Visio 2010).

The issue happens if you are running some other clipboard manager, like ditto or similar. The only thing you can do is use task manager to kill visio, then disable any clipboard manager you are using and restart visio.

It is working fine after i restarted the system.

I'd like to ring in that I had this issue when a Citrix session remoting to server 1 which was remoting to server 2 went into "triple lock": The screen saver in all three servers had kicked in. Ditto went crazy as did every app that I used the clipboard in.

Once I unlocked the sessions (which were lagging like crazy) everything went back to normal.

On my side the issue was coming from Citrix. Thx for pointing that out Vincent.