How many items on clipboard

Thread starter Guest Start date Feb 25, And how do I retrieve more than the last item? Suzanne S. It depends on the version. Up through Word 97, the Clipboard held only one item. Office introduced the Office Clipboard, which I believe stored 12 clips. And it works only in Office, not in any other Windows app. For more information, search Word's Help for "Clipboard. The Office Clipboard can hold 24 items. To see them, select Clipboard from the Task Pane.

To insert any of the items that appear in the Clipboard Task Pane, click on the item. Unsolicited questions forwarded directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Isn't there any keyboard shortcuts available? Clicking a mouse is ponderously slow. Usually I would rarely have to store more than 2 items. If you're making selections from the document itself, you can make multiple noncontiguous selections by pressing Ctrl. I cannot even find my clipboard to cut and paste.

What can I do? What version of office do you have? Tonya Marshall. It's the best clipboard manager for any Windows app.

It hides in your system tray, keeping track of everything you copy. When you need something, click its icon and double-click the item you want to paste it immediately and re-copy it to your clipboard. Looking for something you clipped a while ago?

Ditto includes a search bar on the bottom of its window and type to filter through the things you've clipped. You can also set keyboard shortcuts to paste your most recent ten items without needing to open the app or tweak its settings to paste unformatted text, remove capitalization, compare changes, send text to Google Translate, and more.

It's a full text processing tool that keeps your entire clipboard history only a keystroke away. Ditto Price : Free on the Windows Store. Copied is the best way to sync your clipboard across your Mac and iPhone.

It's a simple tool that lives in the background, keeping your clipboard history ready for when you need it. Open the app to search through your clippings and select one to copy it—or use keyboard shortcuts to paste multiple items easily. Want to use things you've copied again? Copied lets you organize your copied text into sets to use over and again—and it lets you edit things you've copied. Select a copied item, click the pencil icon to edit, and you can tweak the text before saving it to use again later.

Then, its templates help you do more with your text. You can format links in markdown, convert your text to lowercase or Unicode, create a list of references from a set of copied links, and more.

Or you can add rules for specific applications, so text copied from them is automatically saved to the list you want and formatted with the correct template. Spartan is a powerful clipboard manager that can store just about anything you copy—rich text, images, tables, even form entries. Copy and paste as usual, then when you need anything you copied in the past, click the Spartan icon in your system tray and select the item you want.

Need to tweak things before pasting them? Spartan can clean up your clipboard, too, with built-in functions to change text case or resize images. You can add your own tweaks with Spartan's script language , or use its built-in editor to edit items. And you can save your clipboard forever, with 20 different sheets to keep track of lists of items you need to paste often. Still haven't found the perfect clipboard manager for your needs?

Here are a few others to consider:. CopyClip macOS; free is the best free clipboard manager for Mac—though it only works with plain text. You can still copy an image or rich text and paste it immediately, though it won't show up in your clipboard history. It's not as reliable with rich text and images, though. Move your mouse to the menu bar and scroll down to open Unclutter's pane that includes a list of the ten most recent items you've copied, a notepad, and a place to save files you're working on.

It's a unique way to streamline your work. And if you want to save multiple items, you can send yourself a message in Pushbullet and copy it from any device, anytime. It can sync your clipboard to each other platform, though those other apps have far fewer features. ClipAngel Windows; free is a great way to look through your clipboard history. It saves all your copied text and files then lets you preview them in its app.

Decide you'd like to save something forever? Drag the clipped item out of ClipAngel and onto your desktop or a folder and it'll be saved as an image or rich text file automatically. The best option, though, is to not copy and paste. When you're switching back and forth between apps, copying data and making sure everything's the same in both places, Zapier could do that for you automatically.

Its Zaps, or automated app workflows, are designed to watch for new data in one app, then add it to another app—perfect for automating your most tedious tasks. Here are a few popular ways people use Zapier automation to stop copying and pasting data from one place to another:. Looking for more inspiration on ways to automatically copy files, notes, and information in your apps?

Check out our article on all the things you can stop copying and pasting manually with Zapier. Matthew Guay is an editor and writer in Bangkok. When he's not writing, he's likely reading a new book or exploring random streets in a new city.

Follow Matthew at maguay. Why Zapier? How Zapier works. Product tour. Customer stories. Popular ways to use Zapier. Apps that work with Zapier. Explore Zapier by job role. Blog Read the Zapier blog for tips on productivity, automation, and growing your business. To control how the Office Clipboard is displayed, click Options at the bottom of the task pane. Automatically copies items to the Office Clipboard without displaying the Clipboard task pane.

Displays the Office Clipboard icon in the status area of the system taskbar when the Office Clipboard is active. This option is turned on by default. Displays the collected item message when copying items to the Office Clipboard.

The Clipboard is a holding place on your computer where you can temporarily store data text, pictures, and so on. When you copy something, your selection is held on the Clipboard, where it remains until you copy something else or shut down your computer. This means that you can paste the same data multiple times and in different applications. The Clipboard holds only the last selection that you copied. On the Standard toolbar, click Copy. On the Standard toolbar, click Paste.

The Paste Options button that appears in your document is temporary. You can click it to change the formatting of the pasted item. To dismiss it, click anywhere else in the document, press ESC , or begin typing. To save and reuse text and graphics, even if you turn off your computer, you can use the Scrapbook. Copy and paste in Office Online. Paste Special. On the Mac, you cannot view or clear the Clipboard. Select the data that you want to copy. Click the location where you want to paste the data.

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