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    WSllyal2000
    AskWoody Lounger
    January 29, 2003 at 10:55 pm #382571

    I have learned that the RichTextControl supports CTRL-v, Shift-Insert, Drag/Drop, and other when pasting data. My goal is to pre-process the pasted data and not have it go directly into the RichTextBox document. I have tried to use the Form_KeyDown event with no results- i suspect that CTRL-v is a windows thing. I might have to use a combination of APIs functions to do what i want. Has anybody solved this problem? Any suggestions on how i should tackle this?

    Thank you,

    –Llyal

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    • WSSammyB
      AskWoody Lounger
      January 29, 2003 at 11:38 pm #649054

      Both the KeyDown and the Key Press fire, but the paste occures between them. So to change the behavior of Ctrl+V, use the KeyDown. Here is an example which disables Ctrl+V: HTH –Sam

      Option Explicit
Private Sub RichTextBox1_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    If KeyCode = vbKeyV And Shift = vbCtrlMask Then
        Debug.Print "Down"
        KeyCode = 0
    End If
End Sub
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