How to use Windows 10's Clipboard History - blakephouttrat

Sometimes the best software package tools are assembled appropriate into the OS you're already victimization.

Precedent is Windows 10's Clipboard Account tool, which lets you store multiple items at a time for copying and pasting. While there's nary famine of third-company clipboard managers for Windows—many another of which cost money—Microsoft's own option might be every last you need. It's especially accessible if you're often juggling a lot of text or images, and find yourself re-copying and pasting the same items repeatedly.

Using the Windows 10 Clipboard History tool is easy: Press Win+V, and you'll undergo a littler pop-up prompt you to turn on the lineament. From that point onward, you can press Win+V to view a running list of the unlikely 25 text snippets or images that you've copied.

To paste an older item from your Clipboard History, just click happening it in the pop-functioning menu, and it'll insert itself wherever your cursor is settled. For text, you can besides hold Shift while clicking to remove whatever formatting, similar to how you'd press out Shift-Ctrl+V to library paste the most recent token in your clipboard without data formatting.

The Windows 10 Clipboard History tool also tucks away a couple of extra features that you mightiness not posting at the start glance.

For items that you project to paste repeatedly, you can pin them to the top of your name. Just open the Win+V pop-up computer menu, past click the three-dot image next to the item and select Stick.

From this Same menu, you'll also note options for Delete, which wipes that individual item from your clipboard, and Clear All, which nukes your entire clipboard history. Keep these options in mind if you're copying excitable data that you don't lack other users of your computer to see.

Don't overlook Windows clipboard's cloud sync capabilities, either. Head to Settings > System > Clipboard, then enable Sync across devices. You can then pick out either to synchronize your entire clipboard or select items one a time. (For the latter instance, you'll see a Sync pick in the three-dot menu future to any item in your clipboard.)

Synced clipboard items will automatically be available connected other Windows 10 PCs signed into the same Microsoft account. Happening Android, Microsoft's Surface Duo and certain Samsung phones also support clipboard sync via the Your Phone Fellow app. Of course, deleting an item from your clipboard will remove it on other devices as advisable, and they'll be removed automatically after 12 hours.

As with anything shortcut-attendant, the biggest challenge with Windows 10's Clipboard History joyride is remembering to use it primarily. Next time your pinky's hovering all over the Ctrl key to transcript and spread, just save in mind that you rear hit the Win central right next to it to make your clipboard a administer more helpful.

For more neat Windows 10 tricks, check out this story away my co-worker Brad Chacos. And for more possible tech advice in your inbox, sign up for my Advisorator newsletter.