How the Clipboard and Drag & Drop Work — Handling OLE Data Transfer Correctly in Business Apps (archived 2026-09-08)
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Why Excel pastes break and paste fails once the source closes: clipboard formats, delayed rendering, OLE drag and drop, and clipboard history and cloud sync policies. Archived version of https://comcomponent.com/en/blog/windows-clipboard-drag-drop-ole-data-transfer/, as published on 2026-09-08. The live article is maintained and may change after this date. First published 2026-08-21.
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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-09-08
Authors: Go Komura
Institutions: Fujikura (United States)