I could only reproduce this error when the original workbook where the sheet was copied from contained a macro and only when the code was run the first time via a button from the ribbon. If I ran the code again or when I ran the code from within the Visual Basic editor it worked without the error.
The error is an untrappable one, meaning that "on error goto" doesn't work for this error so you cannot create a workaround for this in your code or present the user a more descriptive and friendly message.

Service Pack 1 for the 2007 Microsoft Office system will be available for download on December 11th. We will be sharing more details at that time, but the improvements are focused on stability, performance and security.

I'm very curious if the people from Microsoft stay focusing on bugs and security holes only or if they also do something with all the suggestions and complaints in the various newsgroups and weblogs.

Source:
http://blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/archive/2007/12/05/office-2007-service-pack-1-coming-next-week.aspx

Office Download page:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/FX101321101033.aspx

You can recognize when it is going to work correctly by double, moving striped-lines:

If the double-lines don't show, the hidden rows are copied too:

If it doesn't work, here are some workarounds:

Workaround 1
If you convert your table to a 'table' it works as you would expect. Select the cells and then in the Excel menu choose:
Insert > Table. After you've done this is works just as in the previous Excel versions.

Workaround 2
Make your selection, then press F5 (go to..) then click on the "Special..." button and choose "Visible cells only". When you now copy, only the visible result of your filter will be copied and pasted.

The ultimate workaround (and fix?)
I can reproduce the bug in a certain situation. If I have my data, select the header row and then apply the filter, the filtering works but it copies all the data. If I select the entire data-range or a single cell in it and then apply the filter it works as expected. This behavior is different from Excel 2000, 2002/XP and 2003.

Conclusion
The way it works entirely relies on which cells you have selected before you apply the filter. My advice is to select the entire range and then apply the autofilter.

At first I couldn't reproduce the problem, however when I did it on a computer with Excel 2003 without any service packs installed I could replicate the problem. At first it looks just right but when you save, close and re-open the file the setting of selecting only unlocked cells was lost. I found in the MS Knowledge base that this is a bug that is fortunately fixed in one of the Excel service packs. After I installed the service pack the utility worked as expected.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Excel 2002 and 2003: KB918323

When you try to use a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro to set the EnableSelection property in Microsoft Excel 2002 or in Microsoft Office Excel 2003, the EnableSelection property is not saved. After the workbook is saved, closed, and then opened, cells that you expect to be locked can be selected.

If you set the EnableSelection property manually, the changes are saved. Additionally, locked cells cannot be selected when the workbook is opened.

More information about this Excel bug in Excel 2002/XP and 2003:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918323/en-us

Excel 2002 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: May 6, 2004
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829348/

Description of the Excel 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: August 20, 2004
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840316/

Office update

To download the service pack from Office Update, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/default.aspx

Excel 2007

Unfortunately this bug also exists in Excel 2007 (12.0.4518 and 12.0.6024) and I haven't seen a fix for this. I also found out that if you save the file as an Excel 97-2003 workbook, the selection restrictions will be saved. However if you save the file in 2007 format the setting is lost. Protecting one sheet at a time manually works. However doing it with a macro still has issues in Excel 2007...

Here is an code example:

"After installing the latest version of ASAP-Utilities after upgrading to Office 2007, I began to encounter a problem with Excel 2007 where, upon clicking on an Excel file to open, the main window would open in Excel it would be blank, but upon doing some action, like minimizing it, the actual file would then display properly."

I solved the problem, although I still think it is a bit peculiar.

I develop ASAP Utilities in Excel 2002/XP (Developer edition). After intensive testing I found out that the only simple solution, to solve the delay problem, was to open the file "ASAP Utilities.xla" in Excel 2007 and save it back in Excel 2000-2003 format (what it already was...). I have tested the result and then the delay is gone.

The strangest thing to me is that the problem only occurs in Windows XP with Excel 2007. In Windows Vista the problem does not occur.

The major change in this version is in combination with Excel 2007 where ASAP Utilities now has its own tab in the ribbon.

Preview with the blue (Excel default) theme:

Preview with the black theme:

A screenshot of ASAP Utilities with the favorites menu expanded in Excel 2007 (click to view full-size)

This new version also fixes a bug in the utility "Numbers > Round numbers (not formatting, but changing)..." that appears in combination with the Norwegian and Czech regional settings. Somehow Excel/ASAP Utilities didn't see the numbers as actual numbers and therefore the utility ignored them. (I could only reproduce this bug with these two regional language settings).

Download

Download via the ASAP Utilities FAQ
http://www.asap-utilities.com/faq-questions-answers-detail.php?m=155

Feedback

The ribbon is a whole new experience for me. Please let me know what you think of the new ASAP Utilities menu.

Preview of the new ASAP Utilities menu

A preview of the new ASAP Utilities ribbon in Excel 2007:
More information and a pre-release of the new version will follow this week.

Preferred color scheme

Above is a preview of Excel 2007 with the black color scheme. Which color scheme do you prefer, the blue (default), silver or black?
Personally I prefer the black theme. I think with this scheme everything on the screen is the easiest to distinguish and the most relaxing for my eyes. I also think that that the black color scheme draws more attention to the spreadsheet in stead of to the ribbon.

I have Excel XP on my laptop with Norton Antivirus. ASAP Utilities is installed on my hard disk and with ASAP Utilities installed it takes Excel about 2 to 3 seconds extra to start. On my computer with Excel 2003 this delay is about the same. On my computer with Windows Vista and Excel 2007, Excel starts up in a few seconds whether I start from scratch or start Excel by double-click on a file in windows explorer.
I do find however that the Adobe PDF add-in causes an extra delay of nearly 10 seconds.

Fixing Excel 2007 slow startup problems

On some computer Excel 2007 starts up very slowly. So far it has only been reported to me in combination with Windows XP.
There are a few reasons that I've seen so far that cause this:
- The Adobe PDF maker add-in is slow.
- The add-in autodesk Vault is logging into the network, which causes a delay.
- Problems in the Windows Explorer settings (see below)

Martin von Gagern has written a possible solution for the problem.
http://martin.von-gagern.net/howtos/excel2007load

Martin von Gagern: At least on Windows XP the problem can be solved as described below:
1. Application Explorer
2. Menu Tools
3. Menu item Folder Options
4. Tab File Types
5. List item XLS
6. Button Advanced
7. List item Open
8. Button Edit...
In the dialog box that appears you need to make two adjustments:
Application to perform action:
- At the end of the line after /e append a space character followed by "%1" (including the quotes)
DDE Application Not Running:
- Insert new text: [rem see command line] (including the brackets)
Source: http://martin.von-gagern.net/howtos/excel2007load

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.excel.misc/browse_thread/thread/bfb35ac24358e6b7

These are the settings on my 2007 test-system that work correct:

There are a lot of posts about a slow Excel 2007 in the newsgroups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=excel+2007+slow&num=100&scoring=r

Improving the performance in Excel 2007

Charles Williams has written a great article about improving the performance in Excel 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730921.aspx

You should display the Developer tab or run in developer mode when you want to write macros, run macros that you previously recorded, or create applications to use with Microsoft Office programs.

1. Click the Microsoft Office Button Button image, and then click Excel Options.
2. Click Popular, and then select the Show Developer tab in the Ribbon check box.

Source: office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA101730521033.aspx

A quote from Cris' website:
Today was a fun day. It was our last day with our MVPs visiting here at Redmond. This was one of the best MVP Summits for me - there was a lot of good positive interchange and solid feedback given by the MVPs on all our products. We demoed Office 12 applications in detail so people got a real sense of the totality of Office12. Lots of smiles!

One big smile was when Steven Sinofsky announced during his wrap-up Q&A this morning that Office 12 apps (OneNote included) will support "Save as PDF" natively. He then went through a demo of most of the apps showing each of them saving to PDF. Publisher (another app whose design team I manage) will even support CMYK output for professional pre-press work. Actually, the Publisher team did most of the work to support PDF over the last year. Then the other teams hooked up to the core PDF generator that they wrote from scratch.

It would be great if Excel 12 can also import PDF files.