Paste Clipboard text to OpenOffice document

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I have a Windows application which creates an OpenOffice writer(.odt) file.
I have some text copied in the clipboard. I want to paste it into this open office document.
How do I achieve this. Please help.

Posted 22-Oct-13 1:51am

Ankita M

Updated 22-Oct-13 2:11am

Mike Meinz

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*Karthik Harve* · Answer 1 · 2013-10-22T02:18:00

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Hi,
I assume that you have your code working that creates the .ODT files. All you need to do is get the text from clip board and put that into the file. refer MSDN article below for reading from clipboard.

How to: Retrieve Data from the Clipboard - MSDN[^]

hope it helps.

Posted 22-Oct-13 2:18am

Karthik Harve