I recommend using a popular application called Clipdiary. The best way to save all of the things you copied is by using a 3rd party application and keep it running in the background. The BEST method – Use a 3rd party application to save your “entire” clipboard history containing all the things you copied
Read #3 below for something that works better than the Windows 10 solution.
Click here for how to manage (less efficient) Windows 10 clipboard history within the OS itself.
That’s why 3rd party software is more efficient. If you have turned on clipboard history in Windows 10 you can save an unlimited amount of both text and images in history, but here’s the catch – you will have to be constantly managing your history or you will lose everything if you clear your history or restart your computer. An OKAY method – Use Windows 10 built-in clipboard history feature Remember this will only hold up to 24 instances of text you have copied and will not be saved once you close MS Word.Ģ. The copied text will appear inside MS Word Clipboard view panel as shown. Once you have this open you can run some tests like copying text inside Google Docs, from a website, or from an e-mail. Locate the MS Word clipboard feature and expand it by clicking the icon.Ĥ. Create a new blank document in MS Word.ģ. With MS Word open it can collect copied text from other text editors you are working in, copied text from websites, copied text from e-mails, and Google Docs. This is a disadvantage if you need to have a clipboard history of screenshots. The clipboard is limited to text only.Even if you save the MS Word document you will lose your clipboard history.The MS Word Clipboard only allows you to copy a maximum of 24 text items.You need to have MS Word always open in order to take advantage of this feature.No need to download an application if you have MS Office or Word installed.Copying text from an e-mail is saved in the MS Word clipboard if you have MS Word open.Copying text from websites is saved in the MS Word clipboard if you have MS Word open.Copying text in editors like Windows Text Document or Google Docs is saved in the MS Word clipboard if you have MS Word open.MS Word stores to clipboard the last 24 instances of the text you copied.
Various software applications like recent versions of MS Office have built-in clipboard features that allow you to view all recent text you copied to the clipboard.
A limited method – Use MS Word to see all “recent” text you copied to the clipboard Note: Three methods are explained below under 1, 2, and 3. In this post, I’ll explain how to use MS Word’s clipboard history feature, provide a link for how to turn on Windows 10 clipboard history, and even better, provide information about a standalone free application called Clipdiary that saves all text history plus all your screenshots! Just think of the operating system as having a short-term memory when it comes to clipboard history in regard to default settings. Anything other than what you just copied is basically lost forever. This is why you cannot find the previous things you copied. In the Windows 10 default state, the clipboard is constantly being overwritten by any subsequent thing you copy to the clipboard. Operating systems like Windows 10 only copy one thing to the clipboard at a time and don’t store any history unless you manually adjust settings.