Like Microsoft Word by default provides a function to view Clipboard History on Mac (OS X) it is also possible to view history in many ways. The Office Clipboard stores text and graphics that you copy or cut from anywhere, and it lets you paste the stored items into any other Office file. Here's how it works in Word 2013 or 2016. Cut and paste items from the Clipboard If you're not already there, click Home, then click the launcher in.
Helen Bradley - MS Office Tips, Tricks and Tutorials I'm a lifestyle journalist and I've been writing about office productivity software for a long time. Here you'll find handy hints, tips, tricks, techniques and tutorials on using software as diverse as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and Publisher from Microsoft and other applications that I love. My publishing credits include PC Magazine, Windows XP mag, CNet, PC User mag, SmallbusinessComputing.com, Winplanet and Sydney Morning Herald. In previous incantations of Word it was fairly easy to see, and therefore to know, that the Office clipboard contains more than just the most recently copied or cut item. In Word 2007 this is not the case and you need to know where the clipboard is and to understand that it contains much more of your document history than you might think it does. How it works is that it retains everything you copy and cut to the clipboard during the current session.
As you copy or cut something, all the other items are moved further down the stack leaving the current item at the top. This is the item that is pasted in if you choose the Paste option.
However, you can paste anything that is on the clipboard, provided you can find it. In Word 2007 click the Home tab and, below the Paste button you will see a small entry for the Clipboard and a flyout indicator. Click it and the clipboard will appear and all the items in it will be listed. The clipboard stores up to 24 items and as each additional one is added the one at the bottom is lost. You can paste any of the items that display in the list into your document by just clicking on it.
So, next time you know you cut or copied something a while ago and you need it back, check the Clipboard, chances are it’s there waiting.
Click to expand.there is a simple way to do all this - using Mail in leopard or snow, if you are writing any text into an email, then all along the app is backing it up - to find that clipboard bit you dropped three cut and pastes ago just dig through the trashes (there will be hundreds of versions of the email as it saves every minute or so) or just search for one or two of the words you know will be within the text - works like a dream. Furthermore assuming you have that particular account set to not delete mail in trash until a month has past you can go back a long long way!! - make it IMAP and the same will be true on your mail servers too. So in the unlikely event that it was a well thought out email you trashed the other day, GET DIGGIN in that trash bin - good luck!
Click to expand. OKay. Now it's an even OLDER thread. But, I have the same question.
I 'copied' over a previous 'copy' of necessary info I left on my clipboard. Any hope I can retreive that older info? Has the Mac OS changed in the past, uh, three years? I have a MacBook Pro-late 2009-still running Leopard (OS 10.5.8) and I never thought to add an app that could keep track of my clipboard history (duh) until I found this thread. I'm assuming I'm scr wed, but, doesn't hurt to ask, eh? AND, I WILL add a clipboard history app after today-any new suggestions?
There is a simple way to do all this - using Mail in leopard or snow, if you are writing any text into an email, then all along the app is backing it up - to find that clipboard bit you dropped three cut and pastes ago just dig through the trashes (there will be hundreds of versions of the email as it saves every minute or so) or just search for one or two of the words you know will be within the text - works like a dream. Furthermore assuming you have that particular account set to not delete mail in trash until a month has past you can go back a long long way!! - make it IMAP and the same will be true on your mail servers too. So in the unlikely event that it was a well thought out email you trashed the other day, GET DIGGIN in that trash bin - good luck! Hi Slug420, I see you've posted a bit about retrieving past clipboard entries. I f###d up and some how lost some things 4/5 &4/6 that I had copied briefly to my clipboard to paste into word for word count info. Can I see those clips?
I have done little cutting and pasting since then. See Clyppan, jump cut, ClipMenu & inventive.us/cliplite, but cannot tell if they can access history prior to installation or only going forward. Any thoughts you have would be most helpful.
Am running OXS Lion. Best, [email protected] thank you. Hi Slug420, I see you've posted a bit about retrieving past clipboard entries. I f###d up and some how lost some things 4/5 &4/6 that I had copied briefly to my clipboard to paste into word for word count info.
Can I see those clips? I have done little cutting and pasting since then. See Clyppan, jump cut, ClipMenu & inventive.us/cliplite, but cannot tell if they can access history prior to installation or only going forward. Any thoughts you have would be most helpful.
Am running OXS Lion. Best, [email protected] thank you. In the same boat myself Web forms are a B.tch! I was writing a recommendation and had it copied to clipboard, but neglected to paste it somewhere. The copied a single word and ' Oh no!'
I usually would paste into the very handy and free app 'Notational Velocity' this has replaced 'stickies'as a note place holder, text organizer. It allows password protection of my notes, plus syncing w/ my phone and a place to locally save text I often copy/paste around. But this time, I neglected to follow my own advice and must face the painful results!
Great thread, btw!
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