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Button to copy text to the clipboard

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Reading the document "Javascript for Acrobat API Reference" Page 120:

http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/js_api_reference.pdf

the document discusses the execMenuItem command. From all that I have researched it appears I cannot create a button that copies text from a text field to the UI clipboard. 

On page 121 the API reference says:

To ensure a secure environment, the menu items that can be executed are limited to the following:

●AcroSendMail:SendMail

●ActualSize

●AddFileAttachment

●BookmarkShowLocation

●Close

●CropPages

●DeletePages.............

..............

●ZoomViewOut

The list is long but nowhere is "Copy" mentioned. I don't want to surreptitiously copy text or use a trusted function. I am content with the user knowing a button just copied a field of text. I just want to skip the highlighting of multiple field to get all the text. Does anyone know a way around this? I would like to copy a text field to the clipboard so the text can be entered elsewhere in another program.

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All I know is they made this impossible a long time ago, like with Acrobat 5 or 6. I recall because I took advantage of it and never discovered a workaround.