Copy Cell Contents - Excel 2010 VBA

I am trying to accomplish a relatively (I think) simple task. I want to create a button that copies the contents of the active cell to the clipboard. I will then use crtl+v to paste into another application. The goal is to copy a string of text inside of an excel sheet... including formatting and line breaks. I want to avoid having to press F2, Crtl+shift+home, then crtl+C. Is there a way to do this?

Plain old Crtl+C and activecell.copy do not achieve the right result because they get rid of any line breaks when pasting into another app. TIA