Clipboard

Overview

The Clipboard is similar to a scratch pad on Windows and all running applications. It allows pieces of information to be temporarily stored and retrieved later by another application. Because all applications have access to the clipboard, data can be easily transferred between applications or within an application.

Automate Desktop Clipboard action contains various activities that allow you automate all Windows clipboard operations. Along with the basic Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear clipboard activities, this action also includes a Get Clipboard activity, which retrieves the current contents of the clipboard as text and places it into a variable and into a Set Clipboard activity, which allows you to set the clipboard to the specified text.

Available activities

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Activity	Description
Clipboard - Clear	Clears the current contents of the clipboard.
Clipboard - Copy	Copies the selected text to the clipboard.
Clipboard - Cut	Cuts the selected text from the clipboard.
Clipboard - Get	Retrieves the current contents of the clipboard as text and places it in an Automate Desktop variable.
Clipboard - Paste	Pastes the contents of the clipboard into the currently window.
Clipboard - Set	Sets the clipboard to the specified text.