>Are you sure it's Excel clearing clipboard? Did you try to switch to some other application and back to Notepad and see if clipboard still intact?

Yes I swicthed to a VFP session (there were VFP6 as part of VS6 that they were licensed and installed specifically for me today). Switching between VFP and notepad there are no problems. When I step in code, as soon as I hit createobject('excel.application') clipboard content is gone.
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