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

- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

This article provides a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro example that uses a custom function, GetClipBoardText(), to retrieve text stored on the Clipboard and assigns the contents to a string variable.

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The following example uses the custom function, GetClipBoardText(), to retrieve the Clipboard contents.

Function GetClipBoardText()

   Dim MyData As DataObject
   Set MyData = New DataObject
   ' If the clipboard data is text...
   If MyData.GetFormat(1) = True Then
      ' ...get the text from the clipboard...
      MyData.GetFromClipboard
      ' ...and return it to the function.
      GetClipBoardText = MyData.GetText (1)
   End If

The Clipboard contents, stored in the GetClipBoardText() function, is returned to the variable, MyVar$. The following example shows this routine being called from another function:

Sub MyMainMacro()
  MyVar$ = GetClipBoardText()
End Sub

   ARTICLE-ID: Q82111
   TITLE     : WordBasic Macro to Assign Clipboard Text to a String
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