You do have to have some Office program open in order to use the Office
clipboard.

However, the Office clipboard isn't the only way to store multiple clips.
The Google search http://www.google.com/search?q=clipboard+multiple turns up
lots of other programs, some of them free and others that are inexpensive.
Have a look around.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

xppuser wrote:
hi all,

wxp sp2, office 2003,

i found office clipboard to be quite useful and to date unthinkingly
i have launched word 2003 just so i can have the office clipboard
available for use (even though i may not be using office suite at the
time). i am wondering whether i can launch just the clipboard without
having to open any of the office program (i.e. if i don't need to use
the office suite) say from the run command line or some other way(s).

thanks for help/advice.

jes