How To Access Windows Clipboard

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At that place are numerous useful keyboard shortcuts that tin brand your computing life easier, only Ctrl + C and Ctrl + 5 for copying and pasting via the clipboard are arguably the almost helpful. Simply you may well feel that Windows 10's born utility is a lilliputian lacking -- how about the ability to store multiple items on the clipboard? What nearly synchronizing the clipboard between devices? The ability to proceed things on the clipboard permanently?

Well these are really options that are already available in Windows 10! For some reason Microsoft has opted to not only have it disabled past default, but also failed to annunciate its existence. Here's how to enable clipboard history and how to use it.

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Having recently written about upcoming changes to Windows 10's clipboard, a reader pointed out the history feature which I had completely forgotten existed. Looking dorsum through my archives, I discovered that I'd written about the feature for a magazine over a year and a half ago -- and then seemingly erased it from my mind. It might well exist that you lot'd forgotten nigh it or didn't know about information technology at all; use the post-obit guide to go it up and running.

The only prerequisite is that you lot have at least Windows 10 October 2018 Update installed -- and I ardently promise you do!

Open up Settings from the Get-go menu and click System
Click the Clipboard section to the left
Enable the toggle under Clipboard history
If you'd like to be able to access clipboard contents between computers, enable the Sync across devices toggle every bit well (and encounter the note at the end of the article).

And that's all there is to it. You can re-create text, images and other items to the clipboard in the same way you ever have -- just printing Ctrl + C (or Ctrl + X to cut rather than copy). The difference once you accept enabled clipboard history is that when you press Ctrl + C for a 2d fourth dimension the first item you copied is not replaced. If you press Ctrl + Five, the last thing you copied volition be pasted, but by pressing Win + V yous can access clipboard history.

This floating panel displays a list of all the items you have copied, and y'all can paste any one of them by simply clicking information technology. In that location are additional options bachelor if you lot click the ... button next to an entry. From the sub-menu that appears, you can delete private items, clear the clipboard completely, or pivot any item you plan on pasting more once. This last choice is handy for code snippets you lot tend to reuse, and other pieces of text yous usually type a lot, such as your address. Pinned items will remain on the clipboard fifty-fifty if you lot articulate the rest of the contents.

One final pick that's worth mentioning relates to clipboard synchronization. When yous enable this setting you tin choose between synchronizing everything (Automatically sync text that I copy), or just those items that you specify (Never automatically sync text that I copy). With this latter choice selected, you lot can choose individual items to synchronize past clicking the ... button next to an entry followed past the Sync option.

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