How to Clear Office Clipboard with VBA

Question

How would you clear the Microsoft Office Clipboard using VBA, specifically Word VBA?

I am copying a lot of data at time into the clipboard and don\'t want excessive

Answer 1

Saw this on another post, and I have tested it with Word VBA.

'Clearing the Office Clipboard

    Dim oData   As New DataObject 'object to use the clipboard

    oData.SetText text:=Empty 'Clear
    oData.PutInClipboard 'take in the clipboard to empty it

Just copy and paste into your code where ever you need to clear the Clipboard.

Another thing I noticed is that when I .Quit a program, say Excel, it keeps asking me if I want to keep the data is the Clipboard. A work around is to clear the clipboard using the above stated code. See below:

'Clearing the Office Clipboard

    Dim oData   As New DataObject 'object to use the clipboard

    oData.SetText text:=Empty 'Clear
    oData.PutInClipboard 'take in the clipboard to empty it


'You can also just remove the Alert Messages from the Excel Program while    
'the code is running
'Remove alert Messages from the Excel Program when closing
ExcelProgram.DisplayAlerts = False   

'Quiting the Excel Application
ExcelProgram.Quit

I used the above example in a VBA code to import data from an Excel File. See here