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I had taken an idea from someone here and written an all inclusive helper for wrapping existing text in quotes/dbl quotes/parens/brackets/sq brackets.

All was so blissful, until the company upgraded to Office 2007. Now, any macro that uses ctl-c to grab highlighted text no longer gets the text. The Deluxe Clipboard from Laslo also shows this problem, so I am sure that it wasn't one of my coding errors.

I have tried all sorts of clipwait settings, but that doesn't help. Word seems to be stealing the ctl-c.

I have tried turning off the Office 2007 clipboard, but it seems to not turn off the feature, it just turns off the display of the clipboard history list.

Has anyone found a workaround for this problem?

Thank you.

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Scott Mattes

My small, and slowly growing, collection of scripts.

I concur that WinWord stops send, ^c from working..
Just tried it with Word running and closed.

I will post if I can stop it from happening..

edit:

Ok weird, I restarted Word and then ^c from ahk works.
If I use clipwait, and copy from Word, the clipboard in AHK is empty using:
Going to keep messing with this..

edit edit:

Looks like Words clipboard creates a clip.htm file in (xp):

C:\DOCUME~1\user\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\*n(01)

Its created and deleted very fast so its hard to tell whats in there.

Will try to get one and report back..

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Would it be a big burden to convert the existing scripts to use a COM call to get the highlighted text? This should work for grabbing highlighted text in the active instance of Word:

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Try Quick Search for Autohotkey or see the tutorial for newbies.

That would be doable (and thank you for the code example).

I was pleased with having a straight forward, no exceptions type of macro that worked everywhere though.

I think that I'll complain to my corporate IT people and also to MS for hijacking the clipboard, put your code snippet into my code and be done with it.