Excel VBA code to copy a specific string to clipboard

Question

I'm trying to add a button to a spreadsheet that when clicked will copy a specific URL to my clipboard.

I had a bit of knowledge of Excel VBA but it's been a while and I'm struggling.

Answer 1

EDIT - MSForms is deprecated, so you should no longer use my answer. Instead use this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60896244/692098

I leave my original answer here only for reference:

Sub CopyText(Text As String)
    'VBA Macro using late binding to copy text to clipboard.
    'By Justin Kay, 8/15/2014
    Dim MSForms_DataObject As Object
    Set MSForms_DataObject = CreateObject("new:{1C3B4210-F441-11CE-B9EA-00AA006B1A69}")
    MSForms_DataObject.SetText Text
    MSForms_DataObject.PutInClipboard
    Set MSForms_DataObject = Nothing
End Sub

Usage:

Sub CopySelection()
    CopyText Selection.Text
End Sub

Answer 2

To write text to (or read text from) the Windows clipboard use this VBA function:

Function Clipboard$(Optional s$)
    Dim v: v = s  'Cast to variant for 64-bit VBA support
    With CreateObject("htmlfile")
    With .parentWindow.clipboardData
        Select Case True
            Case Len(s): .setData "text", v
            Case Else:   Clipboard = .getData("text")
        End Select
    End With
    End With
End Function

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'Three examples of copying text to the clipboard:
Clipboard "Excel Hero was here."
Clipboard var1 & vbLF & var2
Clipboard 123

'To read text from the clipboard:
MsgBox Clipboard

This is a solution that does NOT use MS Forms nor the Win32 API. Instead it uses the Microsoft HTML Object Library which is fast and ubiquitous and NOT deprecated by Microsoft like MS Forms. And this solution respects line feeds. This solution also works from 64-bit Office. Finally, this solution allows both writing to and reading from the Windows clipboard. No other solution on this page has these benefits.