Sergey --

Thanks, that's it!

Jim



>Jim,
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>See http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/copy-rtf-text-clipboard
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>>My original reason for this thread was to take some text that was displayed in an edit box in fixed font and be able to paste into elsewhere (Word, for instance) where the fixed font would be maintained.
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>>Now, using the RTF control, I can see how to get the value -- but still don't know how to put into the clipboard. _cliptext is obviously just the text itself ...
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>>(BTW, the user can see this text, but the object can't ever get the focus, so the user can't simply do Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C themselves.)
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