Can the Office Clipboard be cleared using VBA in PowerPoint?

[david.f.jenkins]

Pretty much says it all. I think we've installed some add-ins that
are putting unexpected things in the clipboard. *Our* add-in would
like to clear the clipboard, but I can't figure out how. I can do it
manually, but when I attempt to create a macro from the steps to do
that, it ends up empty. WTH?

As an allied question, does the order in which add-ins are listed in
Tools->Add-ins define the order in which they're loaded? If so, then
it wouldn't do much good to code the vba if our add-in was loaded
before the one leaving its tracks in the clipboard, would it?

 

[david.f.jenkins]

Seeing Adobe icons are ya?

What's your addin trying to do, at what point, and where's it running afoul of
what's already on theclipboard?

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Hi Steve:

I believe it's Shyam's Handout Wizard that's putting the icon in the
OC. I'd like to give the users of *our* add-in the option of clearing
the clipboard when our add-in is loaded, but can't figure out how.
Further, I don't know if that would do any good anyway, since I'm
guessing load order would then play a part in whether the clear would
be effective or not. I'm thinking, unless there's some easy foolproof
way around this, that we'll have to grin and bear it on this one.
Where it's most likely to cause a problem (for us) is when someone
does a Ctrl-C is some other Office app, opens up PowerPoint, and does
a Ctrl-C expecting to see what he copied from the other app. Quelle
surprise!

Any words of wisdom on this one?

 

[david.f.jenkins]

[snip]

Seeing Adobe icons are ya?

How does Adobe manage to get stuff into the OC? Which app?