Click the arrow icon on the corner of the Clipboard section in the Home menu to open the Office Clipboard and look through all the text, links, and images it's saved. You can then view those saved clipboard items inside any Microsoft Office app. Press Ctrl+ C twice in a row while Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or another Office app is open, and the Office Clipboard will keep the most recent 24 items you've copied. If you have Microsoft Office on your PC, the simplest clipboard manager is the one that's built-in: Office Clipboard.

Microsoft Office for Windows includes a built-in clipboard manager Here are the simplest ways to copy as much as you want. We tested over a dozen and picked the apps that were easy to use, free or under $30, and worked reliably with plain and formatted text, images, and files (and all except for Office Clipboard let you set how many items you want to save in your clipboard history). There are a wide range of clipboard apps-and you need something simple to rely on, a tool that's as easy to use as your clipboard, just better. If you want to paste something you copied a while back, that's when you'll turn to the clipboard manager. Keep your clipboard manager app running on your computer, then copy text, links, images, files, and more with Command+ C or Control+ C as normal-and paste as normal, too. I'd never thought I needed a clipboard manager for the longest time-once I started using one, though, it became indispensable.Ĭlipboard managers work like your built-in clipboard. They're super clipboards that remember everything you copy so you can still paste that item you copied an hour ago and almost forgot. Now you've lost the important thing you'd copied previously. Then you see a funny video on your way between tabs and copy it to share with a friend. The bad side is when you copy-or worse, cut-something from a document or spreadsheet, intending to paste it into another document. It's served you well all these years-and hey, on a Mac, it can even remember two things at once. The clipboard built into your computer is pretty good.

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