A Better Way to Copy and Paste in Windows 10 with Cloud Clipboard

Since the very early versions of Windows in the 1980’s, copy and paste has been a very simple process. Highlight the item you’d like to copy, press +, which would copy that item to the Windows Clipboard. When you’d like to paste that item you would then press + and it would magically appear. The Windows clipboard was always limited to storing one thing at a time, such as a single word, paragraph, or a graphic. Since most Windows users only used a single computer, this wasn’t much of a limitation at the time.

There is a set of new features available in the Windows 10 May 2019 update which may be a big benefit to many… the ability to keep multiple items in the Windows Clipboard and select which you’d like to paste into a document. Holding down the + will display the last 25 items copied to the Windows Clipboard.

The feature isn’t enabled by default. To turn it on, type Clipboard Settings into the Windows search box.

Since this new Windows Clipboard now lives in the cloud, you also have the ability to synchronize the clipboard across all of your Windows devices.

For more information, see the Windows 10 Blog post Copy and paste accross Windows devices using Cloud Clipboard

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