Thanks for the quick reply. I'll keep your sample code for when I want the capability you suggested.

However, what I want is to really have a copy and paste situation. I don't want to send strings. I may have quite a number of exe's open, and I don't want to maintain handles to all of them to make sure they all get them. I do have an event mechanism set up, but really all I want is to put some text somewhere that the other exe's can get to, which doesn't impact the stuff everyone else puts into the clipboard - as a matter of fact, our applications want to use the clipboard in the normal way as well.