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I got a cell with the formula LEN(A3). Pasting it to an HTML text area or an text editor will just paste the value.
Is there a way to access the formula in a cell from the clipboard instead of the actual value?
There are literally more than two dozen clipboard formats used by Excel. I just looked most of them in binary view (my ClipMate clipboard extender has a binary option in the viewer) and guess what? I didn’t see formulas anywhere. Doesn’t look like they’re on the clipboard. That’s not to say that you can’t REQUEST the data by “pasting” an OLE object. i.e. if you were a word doc, pasting a spreadsheet, you’d get the embedded spreadsheet, which would contain the data. But that’s done mostly outside of the clipboard.