Question
What is the Clipboard in Word?
How do I access the Clipboard?
Answer
When you cut or copy a block of text in Word 2016, the block is placed into a storage area known as the Clipboard. In Word, the Clipboard can hold more than one thing at a time. You can copy, copy, copy and then use the special clipboard pane to selectively paste text back into your document. The technique is called collect and paste.
- Click the dialog box launcher in the lower-right corner of the Clipboard group on the Home tab, right next to the word Clipboard. The Clipboard pane then appears in the writing area of the Word window. The scrolling list contains the last several items you copied.
- Position the insertion pointer in your document where you want to paste the item.
- In the Clipboard pane, simply click the mouse on the text or image that you wish to paste into the document.
- To remove a single item from Word's clipboard, point the mouse at the item and click the downward pointing triangle to the right of the item; then, select Delete from the dropdown menu that appears.
- To delete all the items on the clipboard, click the Clear All button at the top of the task pane.
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