put text in Office Clipboard

[Coder]

Hi,

I wanted to know of a way that I can put text into the Office
(Outlook/Word) clipboard from Internet Explorer.

So when a user a user clicks on a button, some text is placed into the
clipboard.

Ive tried this, but no luck.

<script language="javascript">
function cpy(myString){
if((typeof window.clipboardData != 'undefined')&&
(window.clipboardData.setData)){
alert('setting: ' + myString);
res = window.clipboardData.clearData();//("text",myString);

alert(res);
}
else {
alert('null');
}
}
</script>

- Thanks.

[Tammo]

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Hi,

I wanted to know of a way that I can put text into the Office
(Outlook/Word) clipboard from Internet Explorer.

So when a user a user clicks on a button, some text is placed into the
clipboard.

Ive tried this, but no luck.

<script language="javascript">
function cpy(myString){
if((typeof window.clipboardData != 'undefined')&&
(window.clipboardData.setData)){
alert('setting: ' + myString);
res = window.clipboardData.clearData();//("text",myString);

alert(res);
}
else {
alert('null');
}
}
</script>

You need a textarea or similar to temporarily hold your string.

// with <TEXTAREA ID="taCode" STYLE="display:none;"></TEXTAREA> in the body
// will copy the element with the given ID, or the selection if there is one
function copy2clipboard(t) {
taCode.innerText =
'\n'+(isselect()?isselect():document.getElementByI d(t).innerText);
textRange = taCode.createTextRange();
textRange.execCommand("RemoveFormat");
textRange.execCommand("Copy");
}
function isselect(){
if (document.getSelection) { return document.getSelection(); } // if IE4+
if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) { return
document.selection.createRange().text; } // if NS
return false;
}
// to read the clipboard, use window.clipboardData.getData("Text");

http://4umi.com/web/javascript/

Hope this helps
Tammo.--

[Randy Webb]

Coder wrote:

Hi,

I wanted to know of a way that I can put text into the Office
(Outlook/Word) clipboard from Internet Explorer.

So when a user a user clicks on a button, some text is placed into the
clipboard.

Ive tried this, but no luck.

<script language="javascript">
function cpy(myString){

if (window.clipboardData)
window.clipboardData.setData('text', myString)

--
Randy
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