excel vba copy a string to clipboard
'VBA function to read and write text to the Windows clipboard.
Function Clipboard$(Optional s$)
Dim v: v = s 'Cast to variant for 64-bit VBA support
With CreateObject("htmlfile")
With .parentWindow.clipboardData
Select Case True
Case Len(s): .setData "text", v
Case Else: Clipboard = .getData("text")
End Select
End With
End With
End Function
'--------------------------------------------------------------------
'Three examples of copying text to the clipboard:
Clipboard "Excel Hero was here."
Clipboard var1 & vbLF & var2
Clipboard 123
'To read text from the clipboard:
MsgBox Clipboard
'Note: This is a solution that does NOT use MS Forms
'nor the Win32 API. Instead it uses the Microsoft HTML Object Library
'which is fast and ubiquitous; and this solution respects line feeds.