The clipboard is a temporary storage area found on many computing devices
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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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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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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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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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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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Mac & Photoshop: Screen capture of an application then pasting it into a new document in photoshop issue
This used to work perfectly up until about a month or two ago. When doing a screen capture onto the clipboard (cmd + ctr + shift + 4) and pasting it into a new document in Photoshop (only in ...
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Is there a way that a tooltip message that appears in the browser can be copied into the clipboard?
This is not code I am writing. Otherwise I would use css, js, or an ie8 accelerator for what I need. Also. I am looking for something my endusers (non technical) can use. So viewsouce, etc won't help. ...
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Any utilities for automatically pasting/assembling copied text from the clipboard?
I thought about writing a utility to do this, but decided to look around for one first. There are dozens of clipboard managers and clipboard-related programs, but I haven't seen one that does exactly ...
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automatically say yes to “you placed a large amount of text on the clipboard.Do you want this text to be available to other applications after you quit Word”
when closing word after copying a large amount of text I get message "you placed a large amount of text on the clipboard.Do you want this text to be available to other applications after you quit ...
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Why does winXP need to turn on the hard drive to copy text to clipboard?
I was typing some text in notepad on my Eee PC with Windows XP on it, and at some point HDD stopped (it usually stops when there is no disk activity for some time). When I needed to ctrl-x a few ...
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Clipboard bug in Wordpad in Windows 7 (accidentally pasting large file into application) [closed]
In Win7, I use Wordpad, and I really like it. For my needs it's lean and fast, yet has the formatting functionalities I'm after when working on my TXT/RTF files on a daily basis. I don't intend to ...
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OSX: copy (command-c) adds to clipboard. How to disable?
Since a while a copy action (command-c) adds the current selection to the clipboard instead of replacing the clipboard. This mostly happens while coding in TextMate but also happened in CSSedit. The ...
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Shift+Insert clipboard only working one way between two Emacs instances
I have two Emacs instances running, one locally and the other as an X Window running on a server I am ssh-connected to. When I try to copy+paste text between one and the other, the instance running on ...
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Does MS Access update the data on the clipboard from a query when the data in the database changes?
I was just debugging a macro in MS Access, and when it hit the breakpoint ran a query and I copied the data from it to the clipboard. Some of the values were null before stepping to the next step, ...
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How do I prevent microsoft-word from prepending a space when pasting from clipboard?
When I cut and past a single word in word 2003 using the clipboard a space is "helpfully" prepended. How/where do I tell word to stop doing that? I suppose there is a configuration option, but I can't ...
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Ditto (Clipboard manager) troubleshooting in windows7
Is there a way to make ditto paste text instantly on enter click after selection on Windows7? (Also see here)
My flow is :
Bring ditto by clicking CTRL+'
Select desired text.
Click ENTER.
Now I ...
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Autohotkey sends literal text does not read variables
My case is simple and i don't know what i'm doing wrong, the tutorial is clear about this, it should work.
When i write pste i want the contents of the clipboard send as keystrokes(i'm using it to ...
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How can I load an image directly into the Windows clipboard from the command line?
My dad asked me how he could script the pasting/inclusion of images in various applications. I'm sure I could script out some quick <img src=... HTML but I believe he's also looking to do this in ...
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XP RDP to Windows 7 Can't Paste
I'm on Windows XP. I'm RDPing to a Windows 7 machine. I can cut and copy (ctrl-X or edit menu or right-click menu in various applications), but pasting just pastes nothing. (Regardless of if I paste ...
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What GUI systems let you copy text with formatting preserved, via clipboard?
If you select and copy a text from Internet Explorer and paste it in Miscrosoft Word, the formatting is preserved.
If you do that in Opera or Firefox in Windows, it's lost, IIRC. I use Gnome desktop ...
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The clipboard is not shared with PuTTY under CentOS
I'm running CentOS 6 on the local machine and using PuTTY.
Selection, copying and pasting text works well inside the PuTTY session. But the clipboard content on the local machine does not change.
My ...
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Can gnome terminal be set up, to copy selection without prompt?
I often times want to copy a set of commands from terminal, that do not have an output; say a block like this:
prompt$ less file1.txt
prompt$ less file2.txt
prompt$ dhex file2.txt
prompt$ less ...
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Paste rich text with formating
I would like to be able to paste rich text that I've copied (for example) from a webpage directly into notepad (or other plain text box) and retain details like urls etc.
For example, if I copied ...
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Clipboard viewer for OS X that allows extracting the data in any available format
I am looking for a clipboard viewer for OS X which will show all formats that the clipboard is holding the data in. (I.e. something similar to the Clipbook viewer in Windows XP.)
I found a number of ...
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Putting a file encoded with UTF-8 on the clipboard with CLIP.EXE under Windows?
I have a situation where I have a Java program that first write a text file and then invokes "CMD /C CLIP < textfile" to be able to put an arbitrarily large file on the Windows clipboard. Works ...
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VirtualBox bidirectional clipboard sharing stops working after some time
Clipboard sharing starts working fine, but it stops working after some time (until I reboot the machine).
From what I understand sometimes the guest additions stop working. I read that I should see ...
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Where can I find the clipboard viewer in vista
In XP I can run "clipbrd" or something and it will open a small program that contains the contents of the clipboard.
I would like to do this in Vista, but not really sure where it is or what it is ...
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Separate binding for keys with shift
I'm using GNU Emacs 23.1.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 and want to use something similar to the emacs clipboard settings described here, but I want to keep the default behavior and get the alternate one by ...
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Xming clipboard only works one way
I recently started using Xming to display-back X11 applications from a Linux VM to my Win XP desktop. It's great -- much more useful than the solution I had before, which used VNC -- but the ...
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Is there a clipboard manager that can paste neglecting the format?
I know there are bunch of clipboard managers. But I am looking for a feature in them. I want to paste (by using a different shortcut) without the formats. Because when I want to get rid of the format ...
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Program to Copy File Path with Mac OS X (that works with Open With)?
I'm looking for a free application that I can use to copy paths in Mac OS X. The paths are listed in a third party program (Fresh) and I can right click them. I wish they would just build in an option ...
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“Cannot Empty the Clipboard” in Excel 2007
In Excel 2007, I am getting an annoying pop-up/alert box whenever I drag a cell to a new location.
Here is the alert box:
Steps to reproduce:
open a new excel sheet
copy/paste information ...
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Extension for browser to copy page source code to clipboard
I'm looking for browser extension that can quickly copy page source code to clipboard. (For example, just click button and all copied).
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OS X: How can I copy the shell path to clipboard?
When working with files on my mac I employ a mixed approach of shell/finder or keyboard/mouse, similar to working with 4NT and Explorer on Windows.
One thing I use(d) extensively on Windows is to ...
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Yank and put between two gvim instances in windows
I frequently work with a couple of gvim instances in windows, usually also with several tabs in each instance. Is is possible to have all the gvim instances share a common yank and put buffer, so that ...
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How to preserve breaks when copying text from table cells in Word
I have a table in Word 2000 where every singe cell can contain paragraphs. I copy the texts to another program that accepts simple clipboard texts (not rich-formatted, you can use notepad for tests). ...
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Ubuntu gnome clipboard
How do I set up Ubuntu so that when I highlight text in a terminal it automatically goes to the clipboard and when I right click it pastes ?
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getting HTML source or rich text from the X clipboard
How can rich text or HTML source code be obtained from the X clipboard? For example, if you copy some text from a web browser and paste it into kompozer, it pastes as HTML, with links etc. preserved. ...
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cannot paste words with pictures in ms word 2010
Is there any option that will correct this? I'm pasting my assignment with some pictures in it in ms word 2010 from a webpage but it doesn't seem to be showing the picture that is copied along with ...
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Cut and paste does not work
As above, suddenly I cannot cut/copy-paste anymore in my windows XP host. I work on a VDI and I get the error message "Cannot empty the clipboard" on trying to cut/copy and paste.
What could be the ...
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Clipboard size limit
Is there any limit of the size of data that can be copied to clipboard? I am using VB6 and need to copy blocks of data to the clipboard.
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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 ...
