Collect and paste among programs

Collect items to paste

  1. 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.
  2. Select the first item you want to copy.
  3. On the Standard toolbar, click Copy .
  4. 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

  1. 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.

  2. Click where you want the items to be pasted. You can paste collected items into any Microsoft Office program.
  3. Do one of the following: