2007 Microsoft® Office System Plain & Simple

Moving and Copying Content

Office programs, and most other programs, use a tool called the Clipboard as a temporary holding area for content that you want to move or copy to another part of your document, to another document in the same program, or to a document in another program. You simply park your text on the Clipboard and then, when you’re ready, you retrieve it and "paste" it into its new location. Office programs use two different Clipboards: the Windows Clipboard, which stores the item most recently cut or copied; and the Office Clipboard, which can store as many as 24 different items, including the most recently cut or copied item. You’ll probably use the Paste button (or press Ctrl+V) when you’re pasting the last item you cut or copied, ...