Troubleshoot collecting and pasting

I can't add additional items to the Microsoft Office Clipboard.

There are already 24 items on the Microsoft Office Clipboard   If you copy more than 24 items, the Office Clipboard will delete the first item copied and then collect the 25th item. Collected items remain on the Office Clipboard until you close all Office programs running on your computer. To begin copying items again, delete some items or click Clear All on the Office Clipboard.

There are large items on the Office Clipboard   The Office Clipboard may stop adding items — even if there are fewer than 24 — if you copy large items to it. The Office Clipboard can contain up to 4 megabytes (MB) of data if system RAM is less than 64 MB, or 8 MB if system RAM is 64 MB or greater. To begin copying items again, delete some items or click Clear All on the Office Clipboard. If a single item is larger than 4 MB or 8 MB, you cannot copy the item to the Office Clipboard.

You are attempting to copy an item with an unsupported format   There are some items that cannot be copied to the Office Clipboard because the format is not supported.

The Office Clipboard is not available.

The Microsoft Office Clipboard is not available anywhere that you cannot use the Copy, Cut, and Paste commands or in the Visual Basic Editor.

However, if the Office Clipboard is displayed in any Office program, any items you cut or copy in any program are collected automatically.

The Office Clipboard is not automatically displayed when I copy multiple items.

  1. On the Office Clipboard task pane, click Options.

  2. Make sure Show Office Clipboard Automatically is checked.

I can't automatically copy items to the Office Clipboard when an Office program is opened.

  1. On the Office Clipboard task pane, click Options.

  2. Make sure Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard is checked.

The Office Clipboard icon  is not displayed.

The option for displaying the Office Clipboard icon is turned off

  1. On the Office Clipboard task pane, click Options.

  2. Make sure Show Office Clipboard Icon on Taskbar is checked.

The option for displaying a status message when collecting is turned off

  1. On the Office Clipboard task pane, click Options.

  2. Make sure Show Status Near Taskbar When Copying is checked.

I don't see a status message when I copy items.

  1. On the Office Clipboard task pane, click Options.

  2. Make sure Show Status Near Taskbar When Copying is checked.

My copied item looks different in the Office Clipboard gallery.

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. The correct formatting and font information is restored when the item is pasted from the gallery.

The Paste All button is not available on the Office Clipboard.

Paste All and the collected items on the Microsoft Office Clipboard are not available anywhere you cannot use the Copy, Cut, and Paste commands or in the Visual Basic Editor.