Can you copy and paste into Notepad?  If not, another process has locked
the clipboard.

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Bryan Phillips
MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
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Hello Anthony,

More Common than that, just check that you have not set up CTRL+V as an accelerator
in one of the menus... Sigh* I do that sometimes.

Regards,
Cyril Gupta

A> I have create a very simple windows form application. I am using
A> textbox
A> control, but I am unable to copy and paste text into the textbox by
A> using
A> keyboard hot key.
A> Anyone come across this problem before?
A> Thanks
A>

Hello Anthony

I had the same issue.
Probably you are using the toolstrip menu with the default settings.
Since they are setup to get the ctrl-c and v, the textbox is not gettings
them.

look at the following message:
https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=696702&SiteID=1
(so it did not work, but at least I know why)

then I found a post in the vb newsgroup
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/Default.aspx?query=pasteToolStripMenuItem&d
g=&cat=en-us-msdn&lang=en&cr=US&pt=&catlist=774F24A2-F71F-425F-AC2B-DC48AB0DA5C9
&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us
thats a workaround, but in VB ;-)

cheers Harry