MATLAB: How to copy the plot in a figure to a clipboard to paste to an external application outside MATLAB

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I have a plot figure and I want to copy the figure to clipboard to paste to an external editor, say Microsoft Word.

The PRINT function can be used in the following format:

print -dmeta -noui

in a GUI callback. The attached GUI shows how this behavior can be achieved. To try this sample, please follow these steps:

1) Download the attached files.

2) Run the program and in the GUI, click on the push button.

3) Open MS-Word and type Ctrl+V (Paste).

In order to copy your figure to the clipboard you can use the -NOUI option with the PRINT command as follows:

1. Open your GUI.

2. Run the following code:

set(0,'showhiddenhandles','on')
print -dmeta -noui

3.The axes of the GUI figure now should be in the clipboard. You can now paste it, for example, in a word document.

>> print -clipboard -dbitmap

>>  print -clipboard -dmeta