microsoft.public.word.vba.general

The clipboard is a feature of Windows, not of Office. If you really want to
change the behavior of your operating system, you are well outside the scope
of Word macros, and this discussion forum is not really the right place for
your question. But good luck to you!
--
Barbara Hill


"nuk15" wrote:

> Thank you for the reply. Well I normally do get all the references down, but
> when citing lots of different sources it becomes quite tedious (even using
> EndNote, etc) and hence sometimes me and my collegues can make errors.
>
> OK, specifically my requirement is to have the source location and date to
> be recorded within the metadata of the word document whenever anything on the
> clipboard is pasted into the document. So I'm guessing the recording would
> have to take place when the text, image, etc, is copied to the clipboard.
>
> Do you think then that it might be possible to do this with a taskbar-based
> VB application that records a 'copy' action and makes that information
> available to be recorded in Word metadata when it is pasted?
>
> "fumei via OfficeKB.com" wrote:
>
> > Not really possible.
> >
> > If you copy something from a webpage, you are copying it into the clipboard.
> > When you paste it, you are pasting it from the clipboard. No information on
> > source is available.
> >
> > Ditto for inserting.
> >
> > Embedding is another story. There will data available.
> >
> > "I often forget to write references " What can I say? You can try harder.
> > the problem is with "any imported information"
> >
> > The word 'any" is too broad, and simply put, some methods of bringing stuff
> > into Word do not have the information you seem to want.
> >
> > Now you COULD override the Paste command, so you get a message that insists
> > you DO write in source reference. I would be hesitant to go that route
> > though. You would have to spec out your requirements carefully. What
> > EXACTLY do you want to happen every time you Paste anything?