# Set Clipboard Text

This action sets the Clipboard value to the given value.

{% hint style="info" %}
For the moment, this activity works only for text (no files, images, etc.)
{% endhint %}

## **Properties**

![](/files/-MfcD_4AWNehfWlwmaSw)

### **Input**

**Value**: value to be set in the clipboard. Must be set in quotes for strings.

### **Misc**

* **Display Name**: action display name in your implementation project.
* **Wait Before**: number milliseconds robot to wait before executing the action.
* **Wait After:** number milliseconds robot to wait until moving to the next action.
* **Abort on Error**: True/False
* **Retry Times**: Specifies the number of times to retry an action if it doesn't end successfully. Default value 0 (no retry); Use -1 if you want to retry indefinitely. 

## **Use Case**

### **Potential Use Cases**

* Set the clipboard value captured from a website
* Set the clipboard value captured from a document

### **Examples of Using Set Clipboard Text**

**Example**

**Description:** 

In this video, the robot will copy in the clipboard the exchange rate EUR-USD and paste it into NotePad++.

Watch the robot in action:

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/y_YyZcy954I>" %}

You can see how the **Set Clipboard Text** activity is used in an example that incorporates multiple activities. You can check and download the example from here:

{% file src="/files/-MT1mK2XMFA93LCnQPep" %}
Set Clipboard Text sample project
{% endfile %}

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