


And the number and quality of these clipping alternatives have continued to grow and expand with the iniquitousness of cloud services happening everywhere nowadays. It also allows you to view what text and images are currently stored in your clipboard.īut what if your organization is still using an earlier version of Microsoft Windows or won’t be deploying version for some time or will be skipping over it? I found out some years ago that there are a number of different Windows clipboard alternatives available that can make your copy-pasting much easier than utilizing CTRL+C and CTRL+V alone.

The new Windows clipboard now lets you pin saved items in your clipboard so you can paste them more easily. Fortunately, this has changed for the better with the newly released October 2018 Update (Windows 10 version 1809) as Microsoft Senior Premier Field Engineer (PFE) Luís Henrique Demetrio explains in this blog post. Unfortunately, until very recently the Windows clipboard has been limited in its functionality to allowing you only to copy and paste a single portion of text or an image at a time, and it didn’t include any built-in utility for viewing what was currently saved on your clipboard. So you’re pretty much stuck to using a copy/paste tool or service of some sort for speeding up this tedious and boring part of running your business. In a small business environment where the focus of work constantly changes as projects come and go, it’s almost impossible to automate most of these routine business tasks.

Such day-to-day tasks as writing reports, putting together proposals, issuing invoices and submitting statements of work (SOWs) all frequently involve a certain amount of copy and paste work as they move from draft through various versions until they reach their final form. As a business owner for more than 20 years, the Windows clipboard has been one of my go-to tools for performing many routine tasks associated with running an IT content development business.
