Hi Ben,

>Thanks for your info. Will there be any trick to make VFP think that the unicode text comes from another Unicode application, like Excel, so that it will do the conversion in pasting?

I'm not sure I understand the question... VFP will always perform a conversion on Unicode content in the clipboard when VFP, because VFP can't handle Unicode at all.

Is your problem that VFP should perform a conversion to multibyte character sets, but isn't doing this when pasting from the clipboard? In this case, you need to read the clipboard contents using the API function and use STRCONV() to convert Unicode to MBCS.