Easy question.. please help!

I have a rich text box in my project and i want it to always use my standardized font, size, color ect...... but right now if you perform and Ctrl+C inside another rtf app like wordpad then ctrl+v into my app it shows up as it did inside wordpad. How do i prevent this from happening?

If you are only going to have one font, size and color, why not just use a standard textbox? That will eliminate problems like that.

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Well for one I can't have a character limit, and the program has syntax highlighting which does use multi color. I just don't want someone to be able to past in out of place text. I would prefer it best if I could prevent the Control-V keystrokes from being used inside the rtf box.

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You have no control over the format of what is currently residing on the Clipboard (as a result of a copy - CTRL C)

Are you saving the contents of your richtextfile to a field in a backend Db?

Yes, and also into non-rtf printed text files. My question is not how to prevent ctrl + c from grabbing formmatting but how to prevent control + v from being used inside the rtf box. That way my menu Paste (short cut control + v ) will come into play and i can properly modify the text in the clipboard. How do i keep the rich text box from recieving control + v?

why don't you set the locked property to true?

Because I do want the user to be able to modify the contents of the text box, but not be able to use ctrl + v.

Try this:

VB Code:

Private Sub RichTextBox1_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
If (KeyCode = vbKeyInsert And Shift = vbShiftMask) Or _
  (KeyCode = vbKeyV And Shift = vbCtrlMask) Then
    RichTextBox1.SelText = Clipboard.GetText(vbCFText)
    KeyCode = 0
End If
End Sub

Thank you!