Learn how to use and troubleshoot the clipboard in Windows to paste multiple items, pin items, and sync your clipboard to the cloud.

Use cut, paste, and copy commands to move text, graphics, and more in a file or across the Office apps.

Use the multi-item Office clipboard to copy and paste text or images in and out of your documents.

Paste allows you to insert formatted text, unformatted text, or an image. Paste link allows you to insert a hyperlink that connects to a separate document or presentation.

When you copy in Excel for the web, you can pick paste options in the destination cells. Select Home, select the clipboard icon, select Paste, and pick the specific paste option you want.

Use keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+V to cut, copy, and paste in Office for the web. Text you paste from outside the web apps is plain text.

Use the Spike in Word to cut multiple blocks of text or other content and paste them elsewhere in the document or into another Word document. The Spike is similar to the actual physical spike …

Open the other Office program, click where you want to paste the data, and then press Ctrl+V. Click Paste Options next to the data, and choose how you want to paste it.

In Word, you can choose to paste text using the formatting of the source, destination, or just pure text. If you always want one of the options, set it as the default for pasted text.

You can use the Paste Special dialog box to copy complex items from a program other than Excel and paste those items into an Excel worksheet. Source Displays the name of the source data …

Click the down arrow next to the item you want to paste, and click Paste. To paste everything in the Clipboard to the selected area in your document, click Paste All.