rows not copied to clipboard with COPY method

sorry guys, simple question and I must be stupid, literally. here's what I have:

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nothing is being copied from book to book in the above code. all objects are set just fine, all variables have the vals they need to have. I've tried everything I can think of to get the code to recognize I want the row data copied from one book and pasted in a row in another book. I've tried to activate anything I can think of. all of the following tricks I've tried, and nothing happens with these either (included in the below attempts is some code that I got from the macro recorder too, which doesn't make sense whatsoever):

trying to activate the worksheets before copying

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trying to activate the workBOOKS before copying

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trying to SELECT the data before copying and before pasting

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what in the world am I doing wrong here guys? I would think that one of these attempts would work!

no i'm not. why would it matter?

Do you have

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in your code?
If so get rid of it & then try running the code again.

no i don't fluff. there is no error handler on purpose, for testing.

In that case what error message do you get & what line does it highlight.

there is no error that occurs. the code runs right through and nothing happens.

this has been magically solved, and I went through so many testing phases regarding opening, closing books, restarting windows, etc, etc....I don't even remember most of it. the following code is what ended up working 10 times in a row, so I went with it:

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