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pass the contents of the clipboard to a variable

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how do i pass the contents of the clipboard to a variable and hen write to a text file?

any help, much appreciated in advance

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This will load the contense of the windows clipboard in to the variable called ClipboardText.

ClipboardText = (Trim(Clipboard.Gettext))

use Clipboard.clear to empty the windows clipboard.


 
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