clearing the clipboard

[Guest]

After 'cutting', is there a way to clear the Clipboard other than pasting?
The question arose because I 'cut' something on a CD using Windows Explorer.
Of course, I couldn't paste it, because you can't 'cut' something this way
from a CD, so I was stuck with something on the Clipboard I couldn't paste.
To clear the Clipboard, I 'cut' something I could paste and pasted it. This
is mildly onerous.

Is there a hot key or something like that you could use to clear the
Clipboard instead?

 

[nelson1114]

After 'cutting', is there a way to clear the Clipboard other than pasting?
The question arose because I 'cut' something on a CD using Windows Explorer.
Of course, I couldn't paste it, because you can't 'cut' something this way
from a CD, so I was stuck with something on the Clipboard I couldn't paste.
To clear the Clipboard, I 'cut' something I could paste and pasted it. This
is mildly onerous.

Is there a hot key or something like that you could use to clear the
Clipboard instead?

You might try 'start>run> then type clipbrd in the run box. This will show
the contents of the clip board which you can delete.

 

[David Candy]

No. Why are you even thinking about it. Why did you need to clear the clipboard. Pasting doesn't clear it. Doesn't touch it, just copies part of it.

If it was a file it is just the location on the clipboard.

so I was stuck with something on the Clipboard I couldn't paste

So what? How does this affect anything.

 

[Alan Edwards]

Pasting doesn't clear the clipboard.
Cutting something else is the usual way to replace the contents,
though there are applications you can use to clear it.
I have never seen the need myself, so I haven't used this:
ClipClear http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp

....Alan

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

After 'cutting', is there a way to clear the Clipboard other than
pasting? The question arose because I 'cut' something on a CD using
Windows Explorer. Of course, I couldn't paste it, because you can't
'cut' something this way from a CD, so I was stuck with something on
the Clipboard I couldn't paste. To clear the Clipboard, I 'cut'
something I could paste and pasted it. This is mildly onerous.

Is there a hot key or something like that you could use to clear the
Clipboard instead?

There's no way to clear the cflipboard, but there's also no *need* to clear
the clipboard. If you don't want to use what's currently in the clipboard,
just ignore it. The next time you cut or copy something to it, it will
replace what's there.

 

[Bill Martin]

After 'cutting', is there a way to clear the Clipboard other than pasting?
The question arose because I 'cut' something on a CD using Windows Explorer.
Of course, I couldn't paste it, because you can't 'cut' something this way
from a CD, so I was stuck with something on the Clipboard I couldn't paste.
To clear the Clipboard, I 'cut' something I could paste and pasted it. This
is mildly onerous.

Is there a hot key or something like that you could use to clear the
Clipboard instead?

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In my limited experience the clipboard works in one of two ways:

1) Other people have noted that it's only storing a link to the data on disk so
you don't care about it anyhow, or

2) If it is storing a large amount of info, XP badgers me to ask if I want to
keep it or purge it. If I've copied a large amount of data from within a file
for example -- rather than the whole file.

Basically I wouldn't worry about it. If it's a lot of data XP will ask what you
want done, and if it's not you don't need to delete it anyhow.

Good luck...

Bill

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Open clipbrd.exe | Click on the Delete X | Click Yes to the prompt

---------------------------
Clear Clipboard
---------------------------
Do you want to clear the contents of the Clipboard?
---------------------------
Yes No
---------------------------

or...

To clear the contents of the Clipboard
In ClipBook Viewer, click the Window menu, and then click Clipboard.
On the Edit menu, click Delete.
Click Yes.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/clear_how_cb.mspx

Or use David Candy's ClearClipboard.exe

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[David Candy]

That large data thingy message is from Office. Office doesnt put anything on the clipboard (except a pointer to itself) unless you exit office. Then it asks if it should replace the link to itself as a running program with the actual data.

 

[Guest]

I tried it. It works. Pretty cool. I had no idea. Thank you.

 

[Guest]

Yes. Nelson1114 essentially gave the same tip. It works. Thank you.
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raymond

Open clipbrd.exe | Click on the Delete X | Click Yes to the prompt

---------------------------
Clear Clipboard
---------------------------
Do you want to clear the contents of the Clipboard?
---------------------------
Yes No
---------------------------

or...

To clear the contents of the Clipboard
In ClipBook Viewer, click the Window menu, and then click Clipboard.
On the Edit menu, click Delete.
Click Yes.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/clear_how_cb.mspx

Or use David Candy's ClearClipboard.exe

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

Evidently you can clear the clipboard. As to need, it seems to me that at
the time the question arose, I was unable to copy or cut, because I would
have had to paste first. But I couldn't paste because the thing I cut was on
a CD. Verstehen Sie? Eventually, I managed to solve my little problem, but
I thought perhaps there might exist a more elegant solution than copying and
pasting something else.

 

[Guest]

One usually asks questions to learn things. In this case we all learned
something, didn't we?

 

[Guest]

Ken,

You mentioned this is no need to clear the clipboard, and I'd have agreed
with you, but running under Office 2k3, the clipboard is configured to save
many copy's of items which I like, when working in Word. I've written a Word
VBA AddIn that open a very large workbook, worksheet at a time, then copy and
paste them into Word as tables. After a while, the clipboard consumes a lot
of memory. So I'm wondering is there any way for me to clear it out after
each paste (since I no longer need it and it eventually consumes too much
memory, causing problems for smaller memory boxes)? I have perused the
variety of answers as to how to do this, but nothing has proved to actually
clear the clipboard. Any ideas?

-Greg

 

[Wesley Vogel]

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. ]]

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 .

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Guest]

Wes,
Thanks for your reply. Actually I apologize for not being clear that I am
trying to clear the Office clipboard programmatically via VBA in an Word
AddIn Macro, not manually as a user. But if you know how to do this, I'd be
most grateful. I'm running Office Pro 2003. Thanks Wes!

-Greg

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. ]]

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 .

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Ken,

You mentioned this is no need to clear the clipboard, and I'd have agreed
with you, but running under Office 2k3, the clipboard is configured to
save many copy's of items which I like, when working in Word. I've
written a Word VBA AddIn that open a very large workbook, worksheet at a
time, then copy and paste them into Word as tables. After a while, the
clipboard consumes a lot of memory. So I'm wondering is there any way for
me to clear it out after each paste (since I no longer need it and it
eventually consumes too much memory, causing problems for smaller memory
boxes)? I have perused the variety of answers as to how to do this, but
nothing has proved to actually clear the clipboard. Any ideas?

-Greg

 

[Wesley Vogel]

I use a utility called ClearClipboard.exe by David Candy. I don't know
where I got it or where you can get it.

About the Clipboard
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e.../dataexchange/clipboard/abouttheclipboard.asp

Note the tree view in the left hand pane.

I.e.
EmptyClipboard Function
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...ference/clipboardfunctions/emptyclipboard.asp

I also noticed after going to Google Groups that this dates from seven
months ago.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Wes,
Thanks for your reply. Actually I apologize for not being clear that I am
trying to clear the Office clipboard programmatically via VBA in an Word
AddIn Macro, not manually as a user. But if you know how to do this, I'd
be most grateful. I'm running Office Pro 2003. Thanks Wes!

-Greg

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. ]]

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 .

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Ken,

You mentioned this is no need to clear the clipboard, and I'd have
agreed with you, but running under Office 2k3, the clipboard is
configured to save many copy's of items which I like, when working in
Word. I've written a Word VBA AddIn that open a very large workbook,
worksheet at a time, then copy and paste them into Word as tables.
After a while, the clipboard consumes a lot of memory. So I'm wondering
is there any way for me to clear it out after each paste (since I no
longer need it and it eventually consumes too much memory, causing
problems for smaller memory boxes)? I have perused the variety of
answers as to how to do this, but nothing has proved to actually clear
the clipboard. Any ideas?

-Greg

:

raymond wrote:

After 'cutting', is there a way to clear the Clipboard other than
pasting? The question arose because I 'cut' something on a CD using
Windows Explorer. Of course, I couldn't paste it, because you can't
'cut' something this way from a CD, so I was stuck with something on
the Clipboard I couldn't paste. To clear the Clipboard, I 'cut'
something I could paste and pasted it. This is mildly onerous.

Is there a hot key or something like that you could use to clear the
Clipboard instead?


There's no way to clear the cflipboard, but there's also no *need* to
clear the clipboard. If you don't want to use what's currently in the
clipboard, just ignore it. The next time you cut or copy something to
it, it will replace what's there.

 

[Guest]

Wes, I'll see if I can find ClearClipboard and I appreciate the COM
references below. Many thanks!
-Greg

I use a utility called ClearClipboard.exe by David Candy. I don't know
where I got it or where you can get it.

About the Clipboard
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e.../dataexchange/clipboard/abouttheclipboard.asp

Note the tree view in the left hand pane.

I.e.
EmptyClipboard Function
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...ference/clipboardfunctions/emptyclipboard.asp

I also noticed after going to Google Groups that this dates from seven
months ago.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Wes,
Thanks for your reply. Actually I apologize for not being clear that I am
trying to clear the Office clipboard programmatically via VBA in an Word
AddIn Macro, not manually as a user. But if you know how to do this, I'd
be most grateful. I'm running Office Pro 2003. Thanks Wes!

-Greg

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. ]]

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 .

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In gregschottland <[email protected]> hunted and
pecked:
Ken,

You mentioned this is no need to clear the clipboard, and I'd have
agreed with you, but running under Office 2k3, the clipboard is
configured to save many copy's of items which I like, when working in
Word. I've written a Word VBA AddIn that open a very large workbook,
worksheet at a time, then copy and paste them into Word as tables.
After a while, the clipboard consumes a lot of memory. So I'm wondering
is there any way for me to clear it out after each paste (since I no
longer need it and it eventually consumes too much memory, causing
problems for smaller memory boxes)? I have perused the variety of
answers as to how to do this, but nothing has proved to actually clear
the clipboard. Any ideas?

-Greg

:

raymond wrote:

After 'cutting', is there a way to clear the Clipboard other than
pasting? The question arose because I 'cut' something on a CD using
Windows Explorer. Of course, I couldn't paste it, because you can't
'cut' something this way from a CD, so I was stuck with something on
the Clipboard I couldn't paste. To clear the Clipboard, I 'cut'
something I could paste and pasted it. This is mildly onerous.

Is there a hot key or something like that you could use to clear the
Clipboard instead?


There's no way to clear the cflipboard, but there's also no *need* to
clear the clipboard. If you don't want to use what's currently in the
clipboard, just ignore it. The next time you cut or copy something to
it, it will replace what's there.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Have fun.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Wes, I'll see if I can find ClearClipboard and I appreciate the COM
references below. Many thanks!
-Greg

I use a utility called ClearClipboard.exe by David Candy. I don't know
where I got it or where you can get it.

About the Clipboard
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e.../dataexchange/clipboard/abouttheclipboard.asp

Note the tree view in the left hand pane.

I.e.
EmptyClipboard Function
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...ference/clipboardfunctions/emptyclipboard.asp

I also noticed after going to Google Groups that this dates from seven
months ago.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Wes,
Thanks for your reply. Actually I apologize for not being clear that I
am trying to clear the Office clipboard programmatically via VBA in an
Word AddIn Macro, not manually as a user. But if you know how to do
this, I'd be most grateful. I'm running Office Pro 2003. Thanks Wes!

-Greg

:

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. ]]

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 .

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In gregschottland <[email protected]> hunted and
pecked:
Ken,

You mentioned this is no need to clear the clipboard, and I'd have
agreed with you, but running under Office 2k3, the clipboard is
configured to save many copy's of items which I like, when working in
Word. I've written a Word VBA AddIn that open a very large workbook,
worksheet at a time, then copy and paste them into Word as tables.
After a while, the clipboard consumes a lot of memory. So I'm
wondering is there any way for me to clear it out after each paste
(since I no longer need it and it eventually consumes too much
memory, causing problems for smaller memory boxes)? I have perused
the variety of answers as to how to do this, but nothing has proved
to actually clear the clipboard. Any ideas?

-Greg

:

raymond wrote:

After 'cutting', is there a way to clear the Clipboard other than
pasting? The question arose because I 'cut' something on a CD using
Windows Explorer. Of course, I couldn't paste it, because you can't
'cut' something this way from a CD, so I was stuck with something on
the Clipboard I couldn't paste. To clear the Clipboard, I 'cut'
something I could paste and pasted it. This is mildly onerous.

Is there a hot key or something like that you could use to clear the
Clipboard instead?


There's no way to clear the cflipboard, but there's also no *need* to
clear the clipboard. If you don't want to use what's currently in the
clipboard, just ignore it. The next time you cut or copy something to
it, it will replace what's there.