>>>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
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>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?

No, it isn't. VB 5.0 has a clipboard object that can be used to manipulate the clipboard. We probably are having this same thoughts on this one, "Wish we had one." The _cliptext system variable is very limited in terms of what it can hold, if it were an object, we'd have access to things beyond text. Ah, well, can't have everything better than VB, can we?

George