Or you can programmatically do the cut and paste if all you are only dealing with text using the _CLIPTEXT system var.

>>Once I have defined and launched my menu, I can't use the ctrl+c and ctrl+v keyboard combos. Is there a way to do that in vfp3.0?
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>>jd
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>I suspect that you need to include VFP edit menu in your menu. (_medit) It nees to be there for the hotkeys to work.