The clipboard is a temporary storage area found on many computing devices
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How do I highlight “copy this” text on a website so that I might middle-click paste?
It seems to be one common practice on websites which intend to give the user text for copying/pasting to place this text in an <input/> or <textarea/> and pre-select it for the user. ...
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Turn off (or increase size threshold) for clipboard warning in MS-Excel
This question asks how to programmatically turn off the "there is a large amount of information in the clipboard" warning" that MS-Excel pops up whenever you try to close an Excel file and the ...
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Pasting into Vista console windows broke, why?
I use Windows Vista x64 and regularly use command line windows, for instance CMD.EXE. I have enabled QuickEdit Mode (and Insert Mode and AutoComplete), to be able to quickly copy and paste text from ...
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Clipboard management like Linux in Windows
In Linux, if I select a text I can paste it in another place with a click of middle mouse button and there is no need to right click and copy or using ctrl+c hotkeys for doing so.
Also the selected ...
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Ubuntu clipboard manager that pastes from popup without Ctrl+V?
I've just discovered Glipper. Is it possible to have it paste the entry from pop-up as soon as I hit enter?
That is, get rid of the last step in the following sentence:
Ctrl+Alt+C
Navigate popup ...
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sharing emacs killed text with gnu screen
I'd like to automatically have text I kill in emacs get put into screen's clipboard. I don't care too much about travel the other direction. I can do it now via a temporary file, but I have to run a ...
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Is there a windows clipboard manager that can switch the contents of the clipboard upon pasting?
The question is a bit difficult to explain, but what often happens is that I need to copy and replace multiple items quickly. For example, I have two words: "start" and "end". I will highlight ...
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How do you auto-type the contents of the clipboard from the host into a guest Virtual Box instance?
In the case where clipboard sharing is not possible, because there is just a console and no GUI.
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Copy/Paste (Clipboard like) functionality from a VNC desktop
I use TightVNC, RealVNC to access the Remote Linux(CentOS,Ubuntu) desktops by running a vncserver on the remote machine. When I connect to those servers from my Windows host:
Can I use the ...
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Software like xclip that comes standard on just about all Linux Distros with X?
I have an application that needs to access the clipboard on *nix OSs but I do not have access to the x event loop because of how it works. Therefore I need to send a command to another application to ...
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Pentadactyl/Vimperator: howto copy image to clipboard
My question is about the Firefox add-on Pentadactyl (the question is also relevant to it's parent project Vimperator). In Pentadactyl, there is a way to save an image:
;s
At this point, you select ...
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Firefox sometimes adds space when I select a word
I have this text in my browser window:
Your userid is XXX
Your temporary password is JBAQJiK9
Please visit `<URL>` and update your password and profile
If I double click on any word except ...
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How to paste a large text in browser in HTML text area
I'm trying to paste a large material on my site.
Unfortunately, if I select more then a 1000 lines or so browser doesn't react on 'paste' command. I can paste it in text editor without any trouble, ...
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How to copy/paste tab characters via the Clipboard into terminal session on gnome / ubuntu
How do i copy text from a text editor, let's say gedit into a terminal session on ubuntu/gnome? I am on ubuntu 12.0.4 using gnome classic.
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How to (re)enable clipboard on WinServer2008 VM (VirtualPC)
At some point yesterday, the clipboard on my VM stopped working.
The VM is a Windows Server 200 Standard SP2 running in Windows VirtualPC, itself running on Windows7 Enterprise.
I can "copy" and ...
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gImageReader Clipboard doesn't work on Windows
I'm using gImageReader to do some OCR on Windows 7, and though I can copy from within the application itself, I can't copy to the external Windows 7 clipboard. I believe the program is gtk based, and ...
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Formatting not retained in paste from Ditto (clipboard manager). Plain text pasted instead [Solved] Add supported types
I'm trying to use Ditto on the Ditto documentation. If I were to copy the table of contents, then paste it (without Ditto) to the word processor, I get http://i.imgur.com/V1GU3.png,
and the formatting ...
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How to resolve problematic vnc/xming clipboard interaction?
I often have both a VNC client window and several X windows open (via Xming) at the same time on my Windows XP desktop. When this happens, the X windows, especially emacs and firefox, often lock up ...
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Can't remove formatting in Notepad, PureText not working for YouTube
If I go to a YouTube link, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jfm-92JXVE and I want to copy some comments to notepad, I find some text is still smaller than other text.
If I select it all and do ...
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How do I prevent Word from applying disabled formatting to pasted plain text?
I've got some plain text (from Notepad) copied to the clipboard. I enable italics, and then paste the text into a Word document with Ctrl+V. The plain text shows up in Word italicized, which is what I ...
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Scheduled Task for the Print Screen Key
Is there any way to setup a scheduled task to "press" the print screen key every 10 minutes? I want to copy the entire screen to the clipboard every 10 minutes. I cannot find much documentation on ...
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Is there a Linux analog to the Clipmate I use in Windows?
In Windows, I use a program called Clipmate.
It harvests text and images from the Windows clipboard.
It has an archiving utility, a search utility, and editing functions (e.g., find and replace).
Is ...
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VirtualBox shared clipboard with images / rich text?
I've got a Windows XP system running in VirtualBox 4.x on OSX on a Mac. I like the clipboard sharing function, however, it applies only to text. Did I miss a special option?
Is there any other way to ...
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opening an office program will empty the clipboard
Steps:
copy text
open word, excel, new email from outlook, etc
paste (nothing happens)
I have to copy it again and paste it into the already open window. This doesn't happen with other vendor ...
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Save Word document to clipboard
I often come into the following situation:
Get an email with attachment in MS Outlook
Open that attachment in MS Word
Starting to edit the document in MS Word
Start replying to the email in MS ...
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Copying text from PeopleSoft to Windows 7 Professional clipboard
When I had Windows XP, I had to select the silver windows theme in order to copy text to the clipboard in our PeopleSoft application. Now, I have Windows 7 Professional with Service Pack 1.
What ...
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Is there a paste-replace shortcut?
Hello all :) This is be a petty request, but it is like an itch to me right now for a specific project:
There are shorcuts for copy and paste, but I often find myself moving bits of text between each ...
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Can I copy image's content rather than file path in Mac finder/path finder?
I collect a lot of icons and use them in applications.
In finder, when I copy an image using cmd+c into the clipboard, Finder actually copies the coaca Filename into the clipboard.
When I paste ...
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Clipboard contents are changed without warning by TextMate
If I copy a section of text from Chrome (also Safari, TextEdit, etc.) and look at what is in the clipboard the types listed (this example is for Chrome) are:
(
"public.utf8-plain-text",
...
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Windows 7 Print Screen Working Half of the Time with Photoshop (CS2)
I take a lot of screenshots of the work I do and paste them in to Photoshop (CS2). Sometimes, every other print screen event does nothing, and when I go to paste in Photoshop, it just pastes the same ...
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VirtualBox 4.1.20 (Windows 7 / Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bit)) copy/paste is broken
I have a Windows 7 Pro host, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS guest. I cannot get the shared clipboard working.
I have installed Guest Additions 4.1.20 on VirtualBox 4.1.20, have restarted, followed instructions ...
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Windows 7 clipboard has a graphic on it by default
I have a Samsung mini laptop with Windows 7 Home premium installed. Any time I start a program that can access the clipboard, I find that a graphic is already on it (without me adding it). I have ...
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Excel 2007 - cannot open the clipboard
Every now and then within Excel when I do Ctrl-x (cut) or Ctrl-c (copy) I get the pop-up message 'Cannot open the Clipboard'.
I can't see any particular pattern to it but it's very annoying when it ...
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Clipboard does not paste correct hyperlink on outlook 2007
last week this problem is not showing however today when i paste a copied a hyperlinked text on outlook, it won't appear correctly.
i changed every settings to default and to no avail.
i don't have ...
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Automatically copy image into Power Point on Mac
I'd like to automatically copy an image (that is saved from MATLAB) into a Power Point presentation. Ideally I'd like to copy an image onto the clipboard, and then be able to paste it into Power ...
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Windows software that lets me drag and drop clipboard contents?
I use Prezi. I'd like to be able to quickly copy an image to my clipboard and paste it into Prezi. Simply copy pasting doesn't work. Dragging and dropping an image does. Is there an application ...
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Cannot copy/paste to Windows 7 after an amount of time
A user on my network (after some hours of work) is unable to use copy/paste on their Windows 7 machine, either with right clicking or with Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. The system is fairly new, so malware problems ...
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Sharing Clipboard between non-networked PC's (KVM style)
My situation is this: I have a PC which is joined to a domain, and another computer 'outside' that network. I'd like to use a KVM style device to switch between them, but sharing the clipboard would ...
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AHK script to catch text before it enters editing box and correct spelling errors
Would it be possible to use AutoHotkey (or anything else really) to 'catch' ALL text before it reaches a program's editing box in order to change any spelling mistakes before they got there?
I ...
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Pasting Periods into Putty Instead of Apostrophes (from MS Word)
When I'm trying to paste text from Word (or even other MSFT applications) that use an apostrophe (') or double-quotes (") into a PuTTY session, the apostrophes or double-quotes get turned into periods ...
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Notepad++ command to tweak document path and filename
In Notepad++ 5.8.6, is there a way to copy to the clipboard the current document's full path and filename after applying a regular expression replace?
For example, I can do Edit > Copy to Clipboard > ...
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In Daum PotPlayer how can I copy a timestamp to the clipboard?
I am listening to audio conversations and from that creating a summary of the interaction. It is not a verbatim transcription. I need to drop timestamp citations everywhere. How can I copy and paste a ...
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How to echo some text to clipboard in putty
Is it possible to send some text to windows clipboard from putty ssh bash window. With command, like:
echo hello | XCLIP_PUTTY
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Is there a tool which shows the clipboard content in full screen?
I have to read a lot of small pieces of text which come from different sources.
Because of this I would like to have a small tool which allows me to show the text which is currently in clipboard in ...
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Filter rich text on clipboard
Is there a tool or a text editor (either "real" or web based) that lets me filter which rich "thing" I want to paste (additional to text) from my clipboard?
For example: Let's say I have a text from ...
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Clipboard management with 'Paste all Functionality' for Linux
I've just frustratingly spend a couple of hours looking for some way to paste multiple items recently copied in one go. I.e copy a line, copy another line, copy a link, then 'PASTE ALL'
I've tried
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Clipboard cannot copy HTML only copies plain text
Whenever I copy text from a web browser and go to paste it in either Microsoft Word 2000 or OpenOffice Document's I get the HTML as plain text and not as formatted HTML. I looks all my hyperlinks, my ...
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Intermittent broken copy-paste, Win 2008 R2
What are common reasons for copy-paste intermittently breaking inside Windows 2008 R2?
Scenario 1:
You copy some text (keyboard
shortcuts or menu click with mouse).
When you go to paste it, ...
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copy/paste on MacOS gets 'Stuck'
SnowLeopard.
I commonly use copy in a terminal window to grab stuff I have to paste. A few times in the last few days, the clipboard has gotten 'stuck' on some old text. I do the copy gesture (with ...
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Copying part of an image with GIMP (Mac) places the png logo on the clipboard instead?
Whenever I open a .png in GIMP and try to copy the current selection to the clipboard the png file icon image is inserted in the clipboard instead. Pasting does not seem to be a problem however.
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