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What is clipboard?

In Windows, the information can be very easily transferred from one location to another. You can transfer the text, or images from one application to another different application program. Similarly, files & folders are copied or moved. Windows operating system uses a temporary area of RAM, known as Clipboard. The selected information (files or folders or any other information) is first copied to the clipboard and then from clipboard, it is pasted to another location. You can make ‘many copies of information from the clipboard. The information stored in clipboard is overwritten when new one is copied to it.

In Windows and application programs running under Windows, following commands are used to transfer information to clipboard and then to copy from clipboard to other  location.

Copy - This command is used to make a copy of selected information to the clipboard. The selected information remains in its original location and its duplicate copy is created in the clipboard.

Cut - This command is used to shift the selected information to the clipboard. The selected, information is removed from its original location.

Paste - This command is used to copy the information from clipboard to another location. The information from clipboard can be copied as many times as required.

Note: You can view clipboard contents by opening Clipboard Viewer. Type "clipbrd" in Run command and press enter.

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