> Does XP have any other generic multi item clipboard, or is it only the
> Office one that is available without third party apps.
Windows Clipboard (clipbrd.exe) holds one item at a time. That item may
only be one period or a whole books worth of text. Or a graphics file, the
contents of a folder, an mp3 file or whatever, but only one item at a time.
There are two different clipboards.
[[The Office Clipboard and the system Clipboard
The Office Clipboard is related to the system Clipboard in the following
ways:
* When you copy multiple items to the Office Clipboard, the last item you
copy is always copied to the system Clipboard.
* When you clear the Office Clipboard, the system Clipboard is also cleared.
* When you use the Paste command, the Paste button, or the shortcut keys
(CTRL+V), you paste the contents of the system Clipboard, not the Office
Clipboard. ]]
from...
About collecting and pasting multiple items
http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/as...548921033.aspx
Clear items from the Office Clipboard
1. If the Microsoft Office Clipboard is not displayed in the task pane,
click Office Clipboard on the Edit menu.
2. On the Office Clipboard task pane, do one of the following:
* To clear one item, click the arrow next to the item you want to
delete, and then click Delete.
* To clear all items, click Clear All .
from MS Word HELP
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Turn Office Clipboard command options on or off
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...823161033.aspx
Turn off the Office Clipboard
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...182571033.aspx
How to use the Office 2000 Clipboard
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221190
How to prevent the Office Clipboard toolbar from appearing when you use
multiple Copy commands in any Office 2000 program
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/207438
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:45782dc7$(E-Mail Removed),
Martin C <(E-Mail Removed)> hunted and pecked:
> I think I may have answered the question myself. It would appear that
> what I have been seeing with the info balloons is from the Office
> clipboard. There is an option to have this displayed in the system tray,
> but if you double click on the icon, it won't display anything if an
> Office application is not already open.
>
> Does XP have any other generic multi item clipboard, or is it only the
> Office one that is available without third party apps.
>
> Martin
>
>
> "Martin C" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:45782c94$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Not sure if I should be asking this question in the Office newsgroup or
>> not, but I thought I would start here first.
>>
>> Whenever I use CTRL C to copy anything, an info balloon appears above the
>> system tray in the status bar to state that x of 24 clipboard items have
>> been collected.
>>
>> What I want to know, is how can all the contents of this clipboard be
>> displayed (shortcut keys would be preferable as I use them a lot) so that
>> I can pick and choose from the copied data I want.
>>
>> I know that the clipboard can be displayed in a task pane in Word (or
>> other Office applications for that matter), but I do not want to have to
>> open up Word to simply paste text into Notepad or IE (for example). I
>> don't want to just to CTRL V as this will only paste in the last copied
>> data item.
>>
>> There must be an easy way to do this.
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>>
>> Martin