The automation worked. The code below is what I ended up using and it seems
to work fine. The only problem is that it takes a while for the getobject
method to respond. If I could do this through the clipboard the response
would be much faster I believe.

Brady
Sub PasteViaExcelAutomation()
Dim e As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application
Dim r, c As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range



Dim i, j, fcount As Integer
Dim x As New System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection


Try
e = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
r = e.Selection
......


"NickHK" wrote:

In VB I'd do something like:

MsgBox "User: Select a Range"
'User select a range of cells
If TypeName(XLApp.Selection)="Range" Then
MsgBox "You selected " & XLApp.Selection.Address & " on worksheet " &
XLApp.Selection.Parent.Name
End If

NickHK

"Brady" wrote in message
...
I believe that I need the clipboard because I don't know what cells in the
excell spreadsheet the user is going to want to paste into my application.
The user needs to be able to select a range of cells. I then grab that
range
and insert into my grid. I can attach to excel as you say below but I
would
need a way for the user to select cells. However, you may be on to
something here. I might be able to connect to excel as you have specified
and get the currently selected range. I'll try that. It seems like it
would be more natual to do this through the clibboard. But I'll give this
a
try.

"NickHK" wrote:

Not being a .Net person, correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood you
use
VSTO etc to automate Office apps.
As such you have access to Excel's object directly.
In VB I'd do something like:
Dim XL as Excel.application
dim WB as Excel.workbook
dim MyRange as Excel.range

set xlapp=new excel.application
set wb=xlapp.workbooks.add
set myrange=wb.worksheets(1).range("A1")
msgbox myrange.value

Unless I'm missing something (which is quite likely), why do you need
the
clipboard ?

NickHK

"Brady"
...
I am working in Visual Studio 2005 VB. I have a windows.forms
application
where I want to retrieve data from excel via the clipboard and insert
it
into
my application. I was trying to find out if there was away to get a
range
object off of the clipboard so that you could use the range object to
retrieve the data and insert it into the application. At this point
I am
simply pulling a string off the clipboard which delimits rows with
newlines
and fields with tabs. The problem I have is that it's not unlikely
that
some of the cells will have a tab character in them which screws up
the
tokenization. I was hoping to get a range object which would alivate
this
problem.