Excel VBA Macro: Check content (of clipboard?) before pasting

Question

I\'ve had some serious issues with pasting data from various sources into Excel. Excel tends to try to be smart and does all kinds of silly formating. We need the data as te

Answer 1

For clipboard access/manipulation, you'll want to add a reference to the Microsoft Forms 2.0 library in Project->References. You can then use the MSForms.DataObject class that has (among others) a GetFormat method to check whether the clipboard has a particular type of data.

This is a pretty good intro to clipboard handling using DataObject.