The Paste Special dialog box enables you to insert placed in the clipboard object into the program's Workspace in a desired format. Available formats are: Internal (the program's internal format), Metafile (Vector image) and DIB (Device Independent Bitmap).

The dialog box contains two sections:

Check the Preview check box to preview the contents of the clipboard in the Preview window.

The Format section enables you to set the format of pasted object.

One or more of them will be gray if the clipboard stores an object of different. For example: if you have copied a bitmap image from a program like Microsoft Paint, the Internal radio button will be gray.