Collect and paste among programs
Collect items to paste
- Make sure that the Microsoft Office Clipboard is displayed in the
task pane
of any open Office program or the Collect Without Showing Office
Clipboard option is turned on.
- If you want to display the Office Clipboard in the active program, click Office Clipboard on the Edit
menu.
- If you want to check the Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard
option, display the Office Clipboard, click Options, and then make
sure the Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard option is
checked.
- Select the first item you want to copy.
- On the Standard toolbar,
click Copy
.
- Continue
copying items from documents in any Office program until you have
collected all of the items you want (up to 24).
Note In some cases such as Unicode
text, the
image displayed in the gallery will look slightly altered. This is because text
is always displayed in the gallery using the Tahoma font. However, the correct
formatting and font information is restored when the item is pasted from the
gallery.
Paste collected items
- If the Microsoft Office Clipboard is not displayed in the task pane, click Office
Clipboard on the Edit menu.
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.
- Click where you want the items to be pasted. You can paste collected items into any Microsoft Office program.
- Do one of the following:
- To paste items one at a time, on the Office
Clipboard, click the each item you want to paste.
- To paste all the items you copied, click Paste All
on the Office Clipboard task pane.