Abandoning clipboard when exiting Word

[punchme]

I have a VBScript that does some operations in Word, and due to the size of the document I'm manipulating, when my script finally forces an exit from Word (via "objWord.Documents.Close" followed by "objWord.Quit&quot, I am given the prompt "You placed a large amount of text on the Clipboard. Do you want this text to be available to other applications after you quit Word?"

Is there a way to force it to not send this prompt, or to pound through it? I've already set "objWord.DisplayAlerts = False", but the prompt still comes up. I also checked the docs for Word's .Quit method, and none of the arguments say anything about telling Word whether or not to abandon the clipboard.

 

[markdmac]

Public Sub Clear()
VB.Clipboard.Clear
End Sub


I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark

 

[PHV]

markdmac, what is supposed to be VB ?

 

[markdmac]

Sorry, that was Visual Basic.

You can find a number of examples of clearing the clipboard by doing a search on msdn.microsoft.com. Search the words Clipboard.Clear.

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark

 

[punchme]

Thanks guys. What I ended up doing was using VBScript to highlight a very small Selection (just one line of text) and then doing a .Copy to bring that into the paste buffer. Since that small piece of text replaced the massive amount of data that was previously in the paste buffer, I no longer get the warning when I close Word.

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Phil