For what it's worth, this is the basic Powershell script I was messing with... this works on on one computer with Powershell 5.0.  I have another computer with Powershell 5.0 and it doesn't work... so, I've given up figuring out what's going on!  I did try the iterative Foreach, as well... seems to have the same behavior, so... I don't know.  But, anyway, when I try to run it from Clipboard Help+Spell, it just brings up a Windows Explorer window of the Clipboard Help+Spell directory...?!?  You don't what to see the copy with all the comments indicating all the changes... it's a total mess!

# powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File Drive:\Path\to\file\ClipboardEntryParse.ps1

function Get-Clipboard([switch] $Lines) {
   if($Lines) {
      $cmd = {
         Add-Type -Assembly PresentationCore
         [Windows.Clipboard]::GetText() -replace "`r", '' -split "`n"
      }
   } else {
      $cmd = {
         Add-Type -Assembly PresentationCore
         [Windows.Clipboard]::GetText()
      }
   }
   if([threading.thread]::CurrentThread.GetApartmentState() -eq 'MTA') {
      & powershell -Sta -Command $cmd
   } else {
      & $cmd
   }
}

function Out-Clipboard {
    [cmdletbinding()]
    param (
        [parameter(Position=0,Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true)]$InputObject,
        [switch] $File
    )
    begin {
        $ps = [PowerShell]::Create()
        $rs = [RunSpaceFactory]::CreateRunspace()
        $rs.ApartmentState = "STA"
        $rs.ThreadOptions = "ReuseThread"
        $rs.Open()
        $data = @()
    }
    process {$data += $InputObject}
    end {
        $rs.SessionStateProxy.SetVariable("do_file_copy", $File)
        $rs.SessionStateProxy.SetVariable("data", $data)
        $ps.Runspace = $rs
        $ps.AddScript({
            Add-Type -AssemblyName 'System.Windows.Forms'
            if ($do_file_copy) {
                $file_list = New-Object -TypeName System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection
                $data | % {
                    if ($_ -is [System.IO.FileInfo]) {[void]$file_list.Add($_.FullName)}
                    elseif ([IO.File]::Exists($_))    {[void]$file_list.Add($_)}
                }
                [System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard]::SetFileDropList($file_list)
            } else {
                $host_out = (($data | Out-String -Width 1000) -split "`n" | % {$_.TrimEnd()}) -join "`n"
                [System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard]::SetText($host_out)
            }
        }).Invoke()
    }
}



$text = [String]::Join(' ', (Get-Clipboard))
  [regex]::Matches($text, '(\w+(?:[-'']\w+)*)') |
  ForEach-Object { Out-Clipboard $_.Value  }

I don't know why this didn't occur to me before... AutoHotkey!  And there is a .ahk to .exe converter!  That's got to be easier than trying to do it with VB...