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How can I access the windows clipboard?
On closing a number of applications ask if I want to keep the data on my
clipboard available for other applications. How can I look at the clipboard, either before or after closing down, to see what is available to me there? |
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How can I access the windows clipboard?
The Windows clipboard will contain the last thing you copied.
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "northside104" wrote in message ... On closing a number of applications ask if I want to keep the data on my clipboard available for other applications. How can I look at the clipboard, either before or after closing down, to see what is available to me there? |
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How can I access the windows clipboard?
The clipboard contains copied data in several different formats - some of
those, in the case of a picture, say, or a large quantity of formatted text, can be quite large. To save space (and time), some of those formats are simply held as flags saying 'if you need this format, go check the application you were copying from'. When you close the application you last copied from, and there is such a marker on the clipboard, you remove the ability of the clipboard to 'go check it' so, if you want to keep it for later use, the full details of that format must be placed on the clipboard before the application closes. The application you are closing is just asking you whether it needs to do this closing, or whether you can live without it. You know what you copied, you know whether you still need it; if you need to look at the clipboard because you can't remember what you last copied, you almost certainly don't need it any longer and can reply to that effect. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The Windows clipboard will contain the last thing you copied. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "northside104" wrote in message ... On closing a number of applications ask if I want to keep the data on my clipboard available for other applications. How can I look at the clipboard, either before or after closing down, to see what is available to me there? |
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How can I access the windows clipboard?
One more bit of information: If there really is some data on the
clipboard and you want to view it, and if you have Windows XP, you can use the Clipbook Viewer (C:\Windows\System32\clipbrd.exe). That file doesn't exist in Vista or Windows 7, so you can download the free Karen's Clipboard Viewer at http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptclpvue.asp. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:24:51 +0100, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote: The clipboard contains copied data in several different formats - some of those, in the case of a picture, say, or a large quantity of formatted text, can be quite large. To save space (and time), some of those formats are simply held as flags saying 'if you need this format, go check the application you were copying from'. When you close the application you last copied from, and there is such a marker on the clipboard, you remove the ability of the clipboard to 'go check it' so, if you want to keep it for later use, the full details of that format must be placed on the clipboard before the application closes. The application you are closing is just asking you whether it needs to do this closing, or whether you can live without it. You know what you copied, you know whether you still need it; if you need to look at the clipboard because you can't remember what you last copied, you almost certainly don't need it any longer and can reply to that effect. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The Windows clipboard will contain the last thing you copied. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "northside104" wrote in message ... On closing a number of applications ask if I want to keep the data on my clipboard available for other applications. How can I look at the clipboard, either before or after closing down, to see what is available to me there? |
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