In a comment to this suggestion: Paste from Excel to LabVIEW Arrays, I suggested what I am reposting here as a separate Idea, namely, offer the possibility to paste (or import) from the clipboard, wherever you can Export to Clipboard.
The Export to Clipboard shortcut menu is not without limitations. For instance, for graphs, here are a few I mentioned in the past:
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Export-data-to-clipboard-Size-Warning/idi-p/2395526
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Export-Data-to-Clipboard-should-only-export-Visible-Pl...
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Higher-precision-for-quot-Export-Data-to-Clipboard-quo...
Note that, as far as I can tell, the only thing we can so far export to the clipboard from LabVIEW are strings (see this suggestion to change that).
Therefore, this suggestion is to offer the same limited ability, i.e. import strings (spreadsheet formatted arrays, graphs, combox box array, etc) into objects with which they are compabible.
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