Quickly collect and paste multiple items by utilizing the Office Clipboard

The Office Clipboard allows you to collect text and graphic items from any number of Office documents or other programs, and then paste them into any Office document. For example, you can copy some text from a Microsoft Word document, copy some data from Microsoft Excel, and copy a bulleted list from Microsoft PowerPoint, from Microsoft FrontPage or Microsoft Internet Explorer copies some text and copies a datasheet from Microsoft Access, switches back to word, and arranges any or all of the items that are collected in the Word document.

The Office Clipboard can be used in conjunction with the standard copy and paste commands. Simply copy an item to the Office Clipboard to add it to the collected content, and then paste it from the Office Clipboard into any Office document at any time. The items that you collect will remain in the Office Clipboard until you quit office.

Show the Office clipboard and copy items to it

To copy items to the Office Clipboard, you must be in the task pane of the Office Program task pane: A window that provides common commands in an Office application. It is in a convenient location and small in size, and you can use these commands while continuing to work on files. Open the Office Clipboard, or you must open the Collect without displaying Office Clipboard option. You can open the Office Clipboard in the task pane by clicking Office Clipboard on the Edit menu.

The Office Clipboard opens automatically when you do one of the following:

Continuously copy or clip two different items in the same program.

Copy an item, paste the item, and then copy another item from the same program.

Replication of the same project two times.

If the Office Clipboard icon appears in the status area, the Office Clipboard is displayed in at least one active Office program.

If you open the Office Clipboard in a task pane in one Office program, the Office Clipboard will not appear automatically when you switch to another Office program. However, you can still continue to copy items from other programs. A message appears above the status area to indicate that an item has been added to the Office clipboard.