Note: Windows Snip and Sketch has replaced the Snipping Tool and the popular garage Snip app for single copy and paste actions. Now every cut or copy you do in any Office program will display on the Clipboard and be available in all of them. Just click the dialog box launcher in the corner of the group:

My experience is if you have both clipboards activated, they will both capture any text entries but the Windows clipboard doesn’t grab images inside of the Office file. If you are only copying and pasting between Office programs, use its own Clipboard. The MS Office Clipboard which has been around for many years, can store up to 24 items, but only works between Office applications. Note: Clipboard History will capture from all of your screens, not just Microsoft programs. Clear All will empty the Clipboard so you can start over and again store up to 25 items. Anything not pinned, will be deleted any time Windows resets.ĭelete will remove only the selected object. Choose Pin to keep it available after Windows has done any Restart. If you have an entry you want to save for future use, point at it and click the ellipsis (…) in the upper right corner to display the Delete, Pin and ClearĪll options. To view and use the Clipboard History, just press the Windows key + V key and scroll the contents. Other methods such as right clicking selected object and choosing Cut or Copy also work. If you have done a lot of copying and pasting, you are familiar with CTRL X to cut (move) CTRL C to copy and CTRL V to paste. How to Retrieve and Use Clipboard History

Click the toggle on for Save multiple items on the right panel to enable clipboard history feature on Windows 10.

Select the Clipboard option from the left of the screen (sidebar).

Click on the System option on the Settings page.

Open Start menu and click on the Settings (gear) icon.

How to Activate Windows 10 Clipboard History

Be aware that the contents are stored in RAM so any entries will be lost when your device is restarted unless you pin those you want to keep. Once maximum is reached, oldest items are replaced with the new ones. Anything larger will not be stored in the history. The feature supports text, HTML, and images less than 4 MB in size. Clipboard History changed that when it first appeared in Windows 10 at the end of 2018. Normally, Windows stores the last object you cut or copied to the clipboard and then is replaced by the next one as it could only hold one object at a time. Simply put, Clipboard History puts Copy and Paste on steroids. It is not on by default so let’s look at how to activate Windows 10 Clipboard History! Finally, a way to capture multiple items from Windows screens and use them over and over again.

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