Turn the Microsoft Office 2016 or 2013 clipboard features on or off using these easy steps.
- In Excel, Word or Powerpoint, select the “Home” tab.
- Select the arrow next to “Clipboard“.
- Select “Options” at the bottom-left of the window.
Select or deselect options as desired:- Show Office Clipboard Automatically – Enables or disables the appearance of the Office Clipboard sidebar.
- Show Office Clipboard When CTRL + C is Pressed Twice – Enables or disables ability to bring up clipboard sidebar by pressing C while holding CTRL key twice.
- Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard – Automatically copies items without displaying the clipboard sidebar.
- Show Office Clipboard Icon on Taskbar – Enables or disables the icon in the Windows Taskbar.
- Show Status Near Taskbar When Copying – Enables or disables the yellow box that appears in the lower-right corner that says “Item collected” when copying items.
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Rashid says
>>I want to know how to turn the clipboard OFF. It keeps clipping from Outlook email all the time.
This should help –
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2817672/macro-takes-longer-than-expected-to-execute-many-individual-copy-and-p
Marsh says
Similar problem as Tom Craig’s. Since I went to Office 2016 anything I copy once from Outlook or MSWord appears on clipboard multiple times. I need to turn the clipboard OFF. I use Spartan and this glitch keeps chewing up the clipboard and my time to clear it.
tom says
. It keeps clipping from Outlook email all the time, without my knowing. Then I am faced with the message, “you have a full clipboard, do you want to copy it” or something like that.
This is in outlook 2016. Can’t find anything how to fix this. Help
tom craig says
No. I want to know how to turn the clipboard OFF. It keeps clipping from Outlook email all the time.