Microsoft KB Archive/158436

= WD97: Sample VB Code to Assign Clipboard Text to String Variable =

Article ID: 158436

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q158436





SUMMARY
This article provides a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro example that uses the GetFromClipboard and GetText methods, to retrieve text stored on the Clipboard and assigns the contents to a string variable.



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The following example Visual Basic for Applications subroutine uses the GetFromClipboard and GetText methods, to retrieve the Clipboard contents to a string variable. Sub GetClipBoardText Dim MyData As DataObject Set MyData = New DataObject Dim sClipText As String On Error GoTo NotText ' Get data from the clipboard. MyData.GetFromClipboard ' Assign clipboard contents to string variable. sClipText = MyData.GetText(1) MsgBox sClipText NotText: If Err <> 0 Then MsgBox "Data on clipboard is not text." End If  End Sub For information about how to do this in earlier versions of Word, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

82111 WordBasic Macro to Assign Clipboard Text to a String Variable

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

