Text to Clipboard with Office 365 / 64-bit

Text to Clipboard with Office 365 / 64-bit

Depending on which version of Excel you're using, you may find you're no long able to dump out text into the clipboard in VBA like you used to.

I found an interesting bit of Win 10 /64-bit safe code on Stack Overflow -Original Stack Overflow Post.

I'm presenting here in an easy copy/paste format - so you can stick this all into a new module in an add-in or macro-enabled workbook.

Just call the 'Clipboard_SetData()' procedure to use it. 



Option Explicit
#If Mac Then
    ' ignore
#Else
    #If VBA7 Then
        Declare PtrSafe Function GlobalUnlock Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As LongPtr) As LongPtr
        Declare PtrSafe Function GlobalLock Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As LongPtr) As LongPtr
        Declare PtrSafe Function GlobalAlloc Lib "kernel32" (ByVal wFlags As Long, _
                                                             ByVal dwBytes As LongPtr) As LongPtr

        Declare PtrSafe Function CloseClipboard Lib "User32" () As Long
        Declare PtrSafe Function OpenClipboard Lib "User32" (ByVal hwnd As LongPtr) As LongPtr
        Declare PtrSafe Function EmptyClipboard Lib "User32" () As Long

        Declare PtrSafe Function lstrcpy Lib "kernel32" (ByVal lpString1 As Any, _
                                                         ByVal lpString2 As Any) As LongPtr

        Declare PtrSafe Function SetClipboardData Lib "User32" (ByVal wFormat _
                                                                As Long, ByVal hMem As LongPtr) As LongPtr
    #Else
        Declare Function GlobalUnlock Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
        Declare Function GlobalLock Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
        Declare Function GlobalAlloc Lib "kernel32" (ByVal wFlags As Long, _
                                                     ByVal dwBytes As Long) As Long

        Declare Function CloseClipboard Lib "User32" () As Long
        Declare Function OpenClipboard Lib "User32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
        Declare Function EmptyClipboard Lib "User32" () As Long

        Declare Function lstrcpy Lib "kernel32" (ByVal lpString1 As Any, _
                                                 ByVal lpString2 As Any) As Long

        Declare Function SetClipboardData Lib "User32" (ByVal wFormat _
                                                        As Long, ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
    #End If
#End If
Public Const GHND = &H42
Public Const CF_TEXT = 1
Public Const MAXSIZE = 4096

Sub ClipBoard_SetData(MyString As String)
    #If Mac Then
        With New MSForms.DataObject
            .SetText MyString
            .PutInClipboard
        End With
    #Else
        #If VBA7 Then
            Dim hGlobalMemory As LongPtr
            Dim hClipMemory   As LongPtr
            Dim lpGlobalMemory    As LongPtr
        #Else
            Dim hGlobalMemory As Long
            Dim hClipMemory   As Long
            Dim lpGlobalMemory    As Long
        #End If

        Dim X                 As Long

        ' Allocate moveable global memory.
        '-------------------------------------------
        hGlobalMemory = GlobalAlloc(GHND, Len(MyString) + 1)

        ' Lock the block to get a far pointer
        ' to this memory.
        lpGlobalMemory = GlobalLock(hGlobalMemory)

        ' Copy the string to this global memory.
        lpGlobalMemory = lstrcpy(lpGlobalMemory, MyString)

        ' Unlock the memory.
        If GlobalUnlock(hGlobalMemory) <> 0 Then
            MsgBox "Could not unlock memory location. Copy aborted."
            GoTo OutOfHere2
        End If

        ' Open the Clipboard to copy data to.
        If OpenClipboard(0&) = 0 Then
            MsgBox "Could not open the Clipboard. Copy aborted."
            Exit Sub
        End If

        ' Clear the Clipboard.
        X = EmptyClipboard()

        ' Copy the data to the Clipboard.
        hClipMemory = SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT, hGlobalMemory)

OutOfHere2:

        If CloseClipboard() = 0 Then
            MsgBox "Could not close Clipboard."
        End If
    #End If

End Sub