[Nebraska-Senior-Blind] Windows Tip- Expanding the use of the text you place on the Clipboard

[robertleslienewman at gmail.com]

Dear Friends and all Windows users

RE: Clipboard History in Windows- saving clipboard items either temporarily
or long term! 

 

Here is a great function that you may find to be of use to you. 

 

Clipboard History change that by allowing the Clipboard to store up to the
last 25 items that you either copied or cut. You can then choose among them
when you needed to 'paste' something that's stored there.  

Clipboard History is also included with Windows 11, but as with Windows 10
it's disabled by default.

Luckily, it's very easy to enable the Clipboard History feature in Windows
11. In fact, there are two ways to do it.

 

Enable Clipboard History

* The first way was using the mouse. And so I deleted that from this
description.

 

* For screen readers and/or Mouse People- press windows key and in that
search box type clipboard history  and press enter. BINGO! you are there!
It'll say- "Clipboard History BUTTON off  And so press the spacebar and it
is now on! (There is not a save button for keeping the new setting, so you
are finished; Alt+F4 and you are out of settings.)

 

That's all there is to enabling Clipboard History on your Windows 11 PC.
Now, let's take a look at how you use it.

Using Clipboard History to paste a stored item into a document or text input
box is almost as easy as pasting something the old fashioned way.

Even though Clipboard History is now enabled you can still paste something
from the Clipboard by either pressing the Ctrl+V key combination or clicking
Edit>Paste, but those methods will simply paste the last item that was
copied or cut just like it always has.

However, press Windows+V and you'll see a box pop up with all the stored
items listed there with the item that was copied or cut last at the top.

Simply click on the item on want to paste and Windows will paste that item
at the current cursor position. Pretty cool, right?

Just as with the regular Clipboard, all the items stored in Clipboard
History will be erased when you shut down the PC. You can also erase them
immediately by clicking the Clear all button.

But luckily there's a way to "save" items that you know you'll need to paste
again in the future.

Press the Windows+V key again and take a closer look at the stored items.

See the little "push-pin" on the right side of each stored item? If you
click on one of those push-pins that will "pin" that item to the Clipboard
to prevent it from being erased when you either click the Clear all button
or shut down the computer.

As you can see, the Clipboard History feature greatly improves on the
original Windows Clipboard. I hope you find it just as useful as I do.

 

Respectfully yours,

Robert Leslie Newman

NFBN Senior Division, President

 

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