>>Is there a way to capture the contents of the clipboard and place into a variable?
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>The _cliptext system variable contains the contents of the clipboard.
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>George

Thanks, George. I just found out from the other programmer in the office that asked me that this is for a VB 5.0 application, not our beloved VFP. Do you (or anyone else) know if _cliptext is valid in VB as well?