Hi Steven. Here is my code: import win32clipboard, win32con
def getclipboard(): win32clipboard.OpenClipboard() s = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_TEXT) win32clipboard.CloseClipboard() return s I use this helper function to grab the text on the clipboard and do useful things with it. Sorry about the description; I have stuff to learn about strings and python 3.3. To get the string length, I just do len(s). There were 10 columns and 700+ rows of data, so len(s) returned 80684 from an excel spreadsheet saved as a text file. >From the clipboard contents copied from the spreadsheet, the characters >s[:80684] were the visible cell contents, and s[80684:] all started with >"b'\x0" and lack any useful info for what I'm trying to accomplish. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list