I'm trying to replicate the recipient text control from Outlook which converts the text typed into objects that contain the formats CF_TEXT, CF_UNICODETEXT and MsOffice8Recipent. I've created an IDataObject with the CF_TEXT format but I can't work out how to get it into the RichEdit control as an object. There is a sample on MSDN for inserting bitmaps that uses OleCreateFromFile() to create the object but I can't work out which OleCreate function to use for my object. OleCreateStaticFromData() returns invalid clipboard format and OleCreateFromData() generates the following exception: 'Unhandled exception at 0x7730de64 (ntdll.dll) in acc3st.EXE: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0023ffff'. Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong?