I would like to use the DDE interface to manipulate excel spreadsheets. Besides just reading/writing cell values, I would like to be able to change cell formatting.  Many of the DDE functions take a format argument which is defined to be “A clipboard format specifier.”  There is not much documentation or examples for this argument.  At a minimum, it seems like it should be possible to query a cell for it’s format (copy) and then apply that format to another cell (paste).

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Bob