Microsoft KB Archive/212730

= WD2000: Visual Basic Macro to Assign Clipboard Text to a String Variable =

Article ID: 212730

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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



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For more information about how to use the sample code in this article, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

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. sClipText = MyData.GetText(1) MsgBox sClipText

NotText:

If Err <> 0 Then MsgBox "Data on clipboard is not text." End If

End Sub IMPORTANT: For this code to run, you need to add a reference to the Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library.

To do this, follow these steps:  On the Microsoft Visual Basic Tools menu, click References to display the References dialog box.

The References dialog box shows all object libraries registered with the operating system. Scroll through the list, and then click to select the Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library check box.

NOTE: If the Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library check box isn't available, follow these steps:  Click Browse. Navigate to the file Fm20.dll, located in one of the following folders:  In Microsoft Windows 95/98, the file should be located in the \SYSTEM folder.

-or- In Microsoft Windows NT or Microsoft Windows 2000, the file should be located in the \SYSTEM32 folder.</li></ul> </li> After you have located the file Fm20.dll, in the Add References box, click Open.</li></ol> </li></ol>

Your Visual Basic project now has a reference to the Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library.

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