vba excel copy cell to clipboard code example

Example 1: how to copy a cell in vba

Public Sub CopyRows() 
    Sheets("Sheet1").Select 
    ' Find the last row of data 
    FinalRow = Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row 
    ' Loop through each row 
    For x = 2 To FinalRow 
        ' Decide if to copy based on column D 
        ThisValue = Cells(x, 4).Value 
        If ThisValue = "A" Then 
            Cells(x, 1).Resize(1, 33).Copy 
            Sheets("SheetA").Select 
            NextRow = Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row + 1 
            Cells(NextRow, 1).Select 
            ActiveSheet.Paste 
            Sheets("Sheet1").Select 
        ElseIf ThisValue = "B" Then 
            Cells(x, 1).Resize(1, 33).Copy 
            Sheets("SheetB").Select 
            NextRow = Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row + 1 
            Cells(NextRow, 1).Select 
            ActiveSheet.Paste 
            Sheets("Sheet1").Select 
        End If 
    Next x 
End Sub

Example 2: excel vba copy a string to clipboard

'VBA function to read and write text to the Windows clipboard.

Function Clipboard$(Optional s$)
    Dim v: v = s  'Cast to variant for 64-bit VBA support
    With CreateObject("htmlfile")
    With .parentWindow.clipboardData
        Select Case True
            Case Len(s): .setData "text", v
            Case Else:   Clipboard = .getData("text")
        End Select
    End With
    End With
End Function

'--------------------------------------------------------------------
'Three examples of copying text to the clipboard:
Clipboard "Excel Hero was here."
Clipboard var1 & vbLF & var2
Clipboard 123

'To read text from the clipboard:
MsgBox Clipboard

'Note:	This is a solution that does NOT use MS Forms 
'nor the Win32 API. Instead it uses the Microsoft HTML Object Library 
'which is fast and ubiquitous; and this solution respects line feeds.