Is there a maximum size for Windows clipboard data?

[Tolkem]

Hi, everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!

I just bumped into this post while checking my feed https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220608-00/?p=106727 Found it a good read and thought of sharing here.
An excerpt:

A customer had a program that opened a very large spreadsheet in Excel. Very large, like over 300,000 rows. They then selected all of the rows in the very large spreadsheet, copied those rows to the clipboard, and then ran a program that tried to extract the data. The program used the GetClipboardData function to retrieve the data in Rich Text Format. What they found was that the call to GetClipboardData was returning NULL. Is there a maximum size for clipboard data?

 

[SlowCoder]

This is what I thought ...

Is there a maximum size for Windows clipboard data? Here's your answer

A Windows user with 300,000 rows of data hit problems, but it wasn't the fault of clipboard.

www.zdnet.com

"There is no pre-set maximum size for clipboard data," explains Chen in a blogpost. "You are limited only by available memory and address space."