Collect and Paste Among Programs

Using the Office Clipboard you can collect items from among different Office programs and then paste them into a single document. There are three parts to the following tutorial.

Display the Microsoft Office Clipboard

Step

Mouse actions

Keyboard actions

On the menu bar of any Office program:

Select Edit.
Select Office Clipboard.

On the menu bar of any Office program:

Open the Edit menu by pressing ALT+E.
Select Office Clipboard by pressing B.

In the Office Clipboard task pane.

Select the Options button.
If it is not already selected, select Show Office Clipboard automatically.

The Office Clipboard will automatically show in the task pane when you collect and paste multiple items.

In the Office Clipboard task pane.

Move to the Options button by pressing TAB.
Press ENTER.
Select Show Office Clipboard automatically by pressing A.

The Office Clipboard will automatically show in the task pane when you collect and paste multiple items.

Press ESC.

Collect Items to Paste

Step

Mouse actions

Keyboard actions

In any Office program:

Select the first item you want to copy.

In any Office program:

Select the first item you want to copy by pressing SHIFT+ the arrow keys.
Copy by pressing CTRL+C.
Continue copying items from documents in any Office program until you have collected all of the items you want (up to 24).

On the Standard toolbar:

Select the Copy button.
Continue copying items from documents in any Office program until you have collected all of the items you want (up to 24).

Paste Collected Items

Step

Mouse actions

Keyboard actions

In any Office program:

Display the Office Clipboard if it is not already displayed (see procedure above).

Note: If the Office Clipboard is not available, you are in a program or view that doesn't support showing or pasting multiple items from the Office Clipboard.

In any Office program:

Display the Office Clipboard if it is not already displayed (see procedure above).

Note: If the Office Clipboard is not available, you are in a program or view that doesn't support showing or pasting multiple items from the Office Clipboard.

In your document:

Place the insertion point where you want the items from the Clipboard to be pasted.

You can paste collected items into any Microsoft Office program.

In your document:

Position the insertion point where you want to place the items from the Clipboard.

You can paste collected items into any Microsoft Office program.

Move to the Office Clipboard task pane by pressing ALT and then, CTRL+TAB.

In the Office Clipboard task pane:

Do one of the following:

To paste items one at a time:

Select each item you want to paste.

Each time you select an item it will be pasted in your open document.

To paste all the items you copied at once:

Select Paste All.

In the Office Clipboard task pane:

Do one of the following:

To paste items one at a time:

Press the TAB key to move to the first item you want to paste.
Press ENTER.
Press the DOWN ARROW to move to each additional item you want to paste, and press ENTER.

To paste all of the items you copied at once:

Press the TAB key to move to Paste All, and then press ENTER.
Press ESC to return to your document.