Getting an Object From the Clipboard

[Montana DOJ Help Desk]

Word 2000

I have the following code for getting text off the clipboard (Variables
dim'd at the module level).

Private Sub ReadFromClipboard()
Set cbValue = New DataObject
cbValue.GetFromClipboard
cbData = Trim(cbValue.GetText)
Set cbValue = Nothing
End Sub

Now I need to do the same basic thing, but with an object instead of text.
The object is a picture that is copied to the clipboard manually, while
working in another application. I've experimented a bit with this, but
cannot get it to read an object off the clipboard. Does anyone know how
this can be done?


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[Jonathan West]

Hi Montana DOJ Help Desk

Go to http://vb.mvps.org/samples/. There is a sample ClipEx which you can
drop into your VBA project that recreated most of what can be done for the
clipboard in VB. Hopefully what you need to do is covered by that.