

In the Clipboard task pane, do one of the following: You can delete items from the Office Clipboard individually or all at the same time. To paste all the items that you copied, in the Clipboard task pane, click Paste All. To paste items one at a time, in the Clipboard task pane, double-click each item that you want to paste. You can paste collected items into any Office program. Each entry includes an icon representing the source Office program and a portion of copied text or a thumbnail of a copied graphic.Ĭlick where you want the items to be pasted. The newest entry is always added to the top. If you copy a twenty-fifth item, the first item on the Office Clipboard is deleted.Īs items are added to the Office Clipboard, an entry is displayed in the Clipboard task pane. The Office Clipboard can hold up to 24 items. Select the first item that you want to copy, and press CTRL+C.Ĭontinue copying items from the same or other files until you have collected all of the items that you want. Open the file that you want to copy items from. Copy and paste multiple items using the Office Clipboard A lot of people around Slate will be celebrating.Note: To open the Clipboard task pane in Outlook, in an open message, click the Message tab, and then click the Clipboard dialog box launcher in the Clipboard group. The update should roll out to all Chrome users shortly after. If you’re desperate for relief from annoying copy/paste workarounds, download Chrome version 52 beta on Wednesday. A Chrome developer wrote, “The problem with changes to copy/paste or drag and drop code is that the integration with external apps has poor test coverage.” Updates to one application can disrupt its ability to paste into other programs. Issue 618771 has been marked as “Fixed.”Ĭopy and paste seems like a simple function, but it doesn’t just magically interoperate between applications. A Google spokesperson confirmed that the fix is on its way and that the Chrome 52 beta will be released Wednesday (three days behind Chrome’s development calendar, which projected that 52 would be released Sunday). They originally considered adding it as an incremental update to the current version of Chrome, 51, but on Thursday concluded that it will go into Chrome version 52. Commenter Parker Johnson wrote, “So glad I stumbled upon this … thought I was going crazy.” The bug is called Issue 618771, and Chrome developers were talking on the thread over the last few weeks about which new Chrome build to put the patch into. As Seguin and Patel point out, it’s a known bug and people have been talking about it in Google Help forums for a few months.
