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Clipboard Related Activities In Uipath

In this article, we will have a look at the activities related to the clipboard. Basically, we will work on these three activities.

Copy Selected Text - This activity copies the selected text of the active window (like notepad).
Set To Clipboard - Sets the selected text to the clipboard.
Get From Clipboard - Gets the text from the clipboard.

Example

In this example

Select a text from the notepad (don’t press CTRL + C).
Drag and drop the "Copy Selected Text" activity.
Set the output of the activity to a string variable say "strCopyText".
Drag and drop the "Set To Clipboard" activity and set the value to the "strCopyText" variable.
Drag and drop the "Get From Clipboard" activity and output the value to the "strCopyText" variable.
Display the value of the variable using a message box.

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