Guessed: Don't understand your response. Although I specified I'm using Word 2007 you responded with suggestions not available on my system (Windows 7) - "C:\Windows\System32\FM20.dll or C:\Windows\FM20.dll" and the display of the References popup from Visual Basic, showing that you're using a much more recent version. I could not find "the Word object model library" on my system. I've got win10 and Office 2016 on another computer, but until MS makes Win7 as slow as Win10 (they're getting there quickly!) I'll continue to use Win7 for my work. Meanwhile... Can anybody provide me with the VBA code in Office 2007 to use the Clipboard? I used to use the Clipboard in Word, EXCEL, and VB but MS updates invalidated that code without any hints on how to advance. The HELP suggestions are useless.