Hi, Bill!

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into a variable or the clipboard
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Ooops - I missed the "clipboard" part of your question, here we are <s>:

Here the simple way:

ON KEY LABEL F9 _cliptext = PROPER( JUSTEXT( WONTOP() ) )

And here the little bit more complicated way (if you're dealing with VSS, there may be the additional " [read only]" tag in the caption:

ON KEY LABEL F9 _cliptext = PROPER( STRTRAN( JUSTEXT( WONTOP() ), " [READ ONLY]" ) )