How do you check if it works or not?
I notice that

? _cliptext

command displays sometimes incorrect data in this case but actual data in clipboard is correct.

>Hi Sergey,
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>Thank you for the ideas.
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>Actually, neither of your kind suggestions let VFP 7 programmatically capture the editor's window's text to clipboard on my machine. Whatever is different from VFP 6 just seems like it lets the code blow right past the KEYBOARD commands and effectively ignored them.
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>FWIW I also tried increasing my FOR...NEXT DoEvents loop from 5 to 50 iterations but saw no change.
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>Unfortunately I'm not the only one experiencing this. Or maybe it is fortunate and suggests that I'm not entirely crazy. Anyway, I'm going to do more digging.
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>Thank you again for the suggestions.