Hi Brian thanks for your prompt and very helpful reply. It's not that I assume Open Office will be a clone of MS, but it does have many of the features of Word, so I thought it would possibly have this one, as I find it quite useful - it saves time to be able to paste several items with one click.
Thank you for your suggestion. I am indeed using Windows 10, and I have enabled Clipboad History as you suggest, and I see that it does enable me to use a Clipboard, but it is still necessary to paste each item separately, rather than being able to paste up to 24 items at a time with one click. Still, better than nothing. Re your suggestion that I add this to Open Office - unfortunately I have very limited IT skills, so would not have the first idea how to do this! Thank you again Mike ________________________________ From: Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> Sent: 22 June 2021 13:51 To: users@openoffice.apache.org <users@openoffice.apache.org> Cc: Michael Lermer <michaeller...@hotmail.co.uk> Subject: Re: CLIPBOARD At 01:48 22/06/2021 +0000, Michael Lermer wrote: >I have been trying to find the Clipboard facility in Open Office, ie >the facility where you can copy up to 24 items (in MS Word), collect >them onto the clipboard, and then paste them into a Text Document >with 1 click, but I could not find it. I'm not sure why you assume that OpenOffice will be a clone of Microsoft Office in this way. >Can anyone tell me how to use this in Open Office? Clipboard facilities are usually provided by operating systems, not individual applications, since their function includes cutting, copying, and pasting between different applications. So you should probably look there for what you seek. If your operating system does not provide what you need, you may be able to find and install a separate, stand-alone application that provides this facility. You have kept your operating system a secret, but Windows 10, for example, has this facility, although disabled by default. Go to Start | Settings | System | Clipboard and toggle on "Clipboard history". Cut, copy, and paste in the usual ways. To paste something earlier than the last item cut or copied, use Windows+V to bring up the Clipboard window, showing the items available. Or you could volunteer to add this facility to OpenOffice. I trust this helps. Brian Barker
