Today, we’re going to expand on that topic by looking at how to use the Clipboard in Microsoft Word. Just type out the command in a new Text document and then save it with a “.bat” extension name and you are good to go.We recently covered the basics of cutting, copying, and pasting in Microsoft Word. echo off | clipīetter still, you can save this command as a bat file and simply double click to run it when needed.
If you prefer the Command application, launch it and type in the command line below. Right-click on your desktop and you’ll see the “Paste” and “Paste shortcut” options are now grayed out. You’ve now successfully emptied the clipboard. Hit Enter and you’ll see the Command application quickly flashes on your screen. Press Windows + R on the keyboard and type in the text below. For whatever reason, Microsoft decided to discontinue this in Windows 10, but luckily, the latest operating system from Microsoft still allows for the clipboard to be emptied. It’s not pretty and canceling the copying and pasting on Windows always seems to take longer than necessary.īack in the good old days of Windows 7, I used to be able to just press the Windows key, then type “clipbrd” and hit Enter to pull up the clipboard and empty it.
Only sometimes I’d hit Paste in accident and Windows would start moving whatever file or folder I had copied. I would find myself constantly right-clicking and hitting Refresh. I have this bad case of OCD when working on a Windows machine. Why is it a good idea to clear the clipboard?Ĭlearing the clipboard saves system resources and keeps your data secure, but for me, it’s more personal. The clipboard is where Windows stores what you’ve just copied. Now would be a good time to clear the clipboard. Let’s suppose you’ve just copied a folder from a shared network drive and pasted it to wherever you needed to paste it.
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