Just for interest's sake - I sussed it already, but would still be interested if anyone can tell me how to instantiate an instance of the clipboard.
My solution was to SetFocus on the desired control (a textbox) & use the following code:
SendKeys "^v"
- it was important that the 'v' was lower case.
Merry Christmas again.
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