>Dragan,
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>you´re right. I spoke to soon. I did this ´by hand´ where I copied text from Word into a form with the RTF-controlbox and the text showed up fine in VFP.
>I wrote a little program to do the trick but when pasting it (_cliptext) it shows the same problem again. I know the text is present on the clipboard the way it should be but the _cliptext is not returning it properly. If I can only find a way to read the content of the clipboard....than I should be fine.....

How about not using the _cliptext at all, as it contains the text version of the clipboard content? I haven't tried any of this, but I seem to remember that the rtf control has a property named RtfText or so, and then what if you just said

thisform.rtfcontrol1.rtftext=oword.selection.rtftext

...OK, this is a long shot, but I figure there'd be some property of oWord.Selection which would return the text in rtf format, and then just stuff it into this property.

Or set focus to this control, and just do sys(1500, _medit_paste) (or whatever was the proper syntax).

Just wildly guessing here, but who knows - some of this may lead to something that would eventually work.