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On closing a number of applications ask if I want to keep the data on my
clipboard available for other applications. How can I look at the clipboard,
either before or after closing down, to see what is available to me there?
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The Windows clipboard will contain the last thing you copied.

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On closing a number of applications ask if I want to keep the data on my
clipboard available for other applications. How can I look at the
clipboard,
either before or after closing down, to see what is available to me there?



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On closing a number of applications ask if I want to keep the data on my
clipboard available for other applications. How can I look at the
clipboard,
either before or after closing down, to see what is available to me there?



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The clipboard contains copied data in several different formats - some of
those, in the case of a picture, say, or a large quantity of formatted text,
can be quite large. To save space (and time), some of those formats are
simply held as flags saying 'if you need this format, go check the
application you were copying from'. When you close the application you last
copied from, and there is such a marker on the clipboard, you remove the
ability of the clipboard to 'go check it' so, if you want to keep it for
later use, the full details of that format must be placed on the clipboard
before the application closes. The application you are closing is just
asking you whether it needs to do this closing, or whether you can live
without it. You know what you copied, you know whether you still need it; if
you need to look at the clipboard because you can't remember what you last
copied, you almost certainly don't need it any longer and can reply to that
effect.

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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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The Windows clipboard will contain the last thing you copied.

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"northside104" wrote in message
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On closing a number of applications ask if I want to keep the data on my
clipboard available for other applications. How can I look at the
clipboard,
either before or after closing down, to see what is available to me
there?




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The clipboard contains copied data in several different formats - some of
those, in the case of a picture, say, or a large quantity of formatted text,
can be quite large. To save space (and time), some of those formats are
simply held as flags saying 'if you need this format, go check the
application you were copying from'. When you close the application you last
copied from, and there is such a marker on the clipboard, you remove the
ability of the clipboard to 'go check it' so, if you want to keep it for
later use, the full details of that format must be placed on the clipboard
before the application closes. The application you are closing is just
asking you whether it needs to do this closing, or whether you can live
without it. You know what you copied, you know whether you still need it; if
you need to look at the clipboard because you can't remember what you last
copied, you almost certainly don't need it any longer and can reply to that
effect.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

www.WordArticles.com

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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The Windows clipboard will contain the last thing you copied.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"northside104" wrote in message
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On closing a number of applications ask if I want to keep the data on my
clipboard available for other applications. How can I look at the
clipboard,
either before or after closing down, to see what is available to me
there?






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One more bit of information: If there really is some data on the
clipboard and you want to view it, and if you have Windows XP, you can
use the Clipbook Viewer (C:\Windows\System32\clipbrd.exe). That file
doesn't exist in Vista or Windows 7, so you can download the free
Karen's Clipboard Viewer at
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptclpvue.asp.

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On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:24:51 +0100, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my
surname dot com wrote:

The clipboard contains copied data in several different formats - some of
those, in the case of a picture, say, or a large quantity of formatted text,
can be quite large. To save space (and time), some of those formats are
simply held as flags saying 'if you need this format, go check the
application you were copying from'. When you close the application you last
copied from, and there is such a marker on the clipboard, you remove the
ability of the clipboard to 'go check it' so, if you want to keep it for
later use, the full details of that format must be placed on the clipboard
before the application closes. The application you are closing is just
asking you whether it needs to do this closing, or whether you can live
without it. You know what you copied, you know whether you still need it; if
you need to look at the clipboard because you can't remember what you last
copied, you almost certainly don't need it any longer and can reply to that
effect.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

www.WordArticles.com

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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The Windows clipboard will contain the last thing you copied.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"northside104" wrote in message
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On closing a number of applications ask if I want to keep the data on my
clipboard available for other applications. How can I look at the
clipboard,
either before or after closing down, to see what is available to me
there?



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One more bit of information: If there really is some data on the
clipboard and you want to view it, and if you have Windows XP, you can
use the Clipbook Viewer (C:\Windows\System32\clipbrd.exe). That file
doesn't exist in Vista or Windows 7, so you can download the free
Karen's Clipboard Viewer at
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptclpvue.asp.

--
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.

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:24:51 +0100, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my
surname dot com wrote:

The clipboard contains copied data in several different formats - some of
those, in the case of a picture, say, or a large quantity of formatted text,
can be quite large. To save space (and time), some of those formats are
simply held as flags saying 'if you need this format, go check the
application you were copying from'. When you close the application you last
copied from, and there is such a marker on the clipboard, you remove the
ability of the clipboard to 'go check it' so, if you want to keep it for
later use, the full details of that format must be placed on the clipboard
before the application closes. The application you are closing is just
asking you whether it needs to do this closing, or whether you can live
without it. You know what you copied, you know whether you still need it; if
you need to look at the clipboard because you can't remember what you last
copied, you almost certainly don't need it any longer and can reply to that
effect.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

www.WordArticles.com

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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The Windows clipboard will contain the last thing you copied.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"northside104" wrote in message
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On closing a number of applications ask if I want to keep the data on my
clipboard available for other applications. How can I look at the
clipboard,
either before or after closing down, to see what is available to me
there?



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