why sendkey not working in this case ?

[matlin]

hi
Can you help me ?

problem :
OS : win XP

i have open a M S word document using OLE control in vb form, now i want to retrieve selected texts from word file to say clipboard, so i have written like:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
'SendKeys "^(C)", True
'or
SendKeys "^{INSERT}"
End Sub

but none of them are working.
I don't understand what is wrong in that, is there any other way by which i can retrieve selected text from M S Word file embedded with vb form and move it to clip board. So that later on i can fetch those text from clipboard to my vb application. Can you give me some suggestion or ideas or sample code for that ?
Thank you.