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I have 2 bits of text I need to copy and paste very frequently from word into another program, but I only ever need one text or the other.
Is there an easy way to copy both documents to clipboard then when I want to paste it gives me the option of which one to paste? At the moment I have to go into word and select the alternate text then paste it, then do all this again if the next customer needs the other text.
Can't download any other software onto this computer due to work rules, so if there is a solution it has to be in windows 7 already.
Thanks
Pretty sure you can't with Windows 7 native clipboard, you need a clipboard extension/manager app to do it. Surely your work must have a way of granting exceptions for people needing specific software? Granted I have to fill in a 3 page form, justifying the requirement to someone who doesn't have a clue what I do but at least there's a way...
In Windows 7, not without third party tools or a lot of Powershell hackery.
Word however does have it's own clipboard, top left corner of the Home menu under the copy & paste icons. For there you can just pick the text you want and hit paste. If you're pasting outside of Word though, this won't help you.
In your case I'd probably just sack off Word completely and have a couple of copies of Notepad running.
Thanks, I'll try using 2 notepads, sounds like might be a bit quicker
We might be upgrading to Windows 10 at some point in the next 6 months, can this be done in windows 10? if not I'll see if they can add any better clipboard programs when they do the upgrade.
Yeah. With W10 you can do stuff like cloud sync your clipboard history and share it between PCs. You need to enable this in settings then paste with Win-V rather than Ctrl-V (or if you hit Win-V without enabling it, it prompts you to enable the history feature).
Write a little macro?
I was just about to say - you can easily write a macro to output a bit of text, and bind that to a hot key so you can press say shift+control+a (or whatever) and it'll output that text.
Try this:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2952126/word-macros-three-examples-to-automate-your-documents.html
Would a macro let me paste it into a program separate to word?
Cougar
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Yeah. With W10 you can do stuff like cloud sync your clipboard history and share it between PCs. You need to enable this in settings then paste with Win-V rather than Ctrl-V (or if you hit Win-V without enabling it, it prompts you to enable the history feature).
kinell that is epic
Except, the OP isn't pasting into Word, they're pasting from it into a.n.other undisclosed app.
Oh.. bum