FWIW --

I ended up avoiding any attempt to read the clipboard in VFP by doing the following:
(1) Create Word Application
(2) Paste into Word
(3) Save Word as HTML file (value = 10)
(4) Using CreateMHTMLBody as noted below.

These seems to be working without any difficulty.

Thanks, all

Jim

>If you are using CDO 2000, you can try .CreateMHTMLBody("file://" + lcHtmlFileName) method instead of HTMLBody property.
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>>I took the HTML and use STRtoFile to put into into a file, which when opened in Word looks just like I want. So it appears that the HTML is OK.
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>>So, the culprit must be in the way I'm sending the email. As noted, HTMLBody gives only partial results. Would you know if there are other parameters to pass it?
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>>Alternatively, can you suggest an alternative method of sending the email?
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