A small window appears with the clips you’ve pasted to the Clipboard. To do it, put your cursor in the location in the document where you want the clip placed. There are other ways as well, such as right-clicking an image on the web and selecting Copy Image from the menu that appears.Īfter you’ve copied clips into it, you can scroll through them, preview them, and choose which to paste into a document. To copy an item to the Clipboard, do what you’ve done in the past: Highlight what you want to copy and press Ctrl-C, or else use an application’s menu, such as Insert > Copy in Office applications. If you’d like to sync your Clipboard history across multiple Windows 10 devices, move the slider from Off to On in the “Sync across devices” section. In the “Clipboard history” section, move the slider from Off to On. To do it, go to Settings > System > Clipboard. You’ll have to switch these new features on.

Now, it stores multiple clips, lets you preview clips and choose which one you’d like to paste into a document, share clips across Windows 10 devices store clips permanently. The new clipboard does much more than merely hold a single clip at a time so you can paste it into a document, which is what the old one did.

But over time, Microsoft has given it some serious attention, and it’s now surprisingly useful. The Windows Clipboard, introduced more than 30 years ago in Windows 1.0, has always been underpowered and not particularly useful.

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