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Clipboard - The Windows clipboard is used to temporarily store stuff. This "stuff" can come in the form of just about anything. Images, files, documents, etc - they can all be placed on the clipboard. Once something has been copied to the clipboard it can be pasted into another location. For example, lets say you were working on a report in MS Word (this tip isn't just for MS Word, the clipboard works with everything) and you would like to quote some information you uncovered on the web. Rather than printing out the web page and re-typing the block of text you would like to quote, you can highlight the text on the webpage and copy it to the clipboard (highlight by holding down your left mouse button and dragging it over the section of text you would like to have. Copy it by right-clicking that section of text and selecting Copy from the menu that pops up). Now, head back to MS Word and position the cursor where you would like to insert the text. Hit CRTL-V (or click the Edit menu, Paste), and presto, the web page text you copied has now been pasted into your Word doc. Note that the clipboard is not a regular program that you can see, it works in the background and is part of the windows system. When you copy stuff to the clipboard, it's kept in your computers memory. Bad thing about that
is that if you copy a big file to the clipboard, then paste it, the big
file sits there until something takes it place. If you want to free the
system resources that are being taken up, copy a small piece of text or
even a desktop icon to the clipboard. The big file will be purged and
the new one won't bog you down. Also see:
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