Windows 10: Did you know about Copy/Paste Clipboard history

Copy and paste windows 10

One of the nice features of our phones is copy/paste history, allowing us to juggle more at once, but Windows 10 has clipboard history too.

How to access Clipboard or copy/paste history in Windows 10

Fortunately for all of us, Microsoft hasn’t assigned this to some absolutely keybind that we’d never be able to remember. To see your copy-paste history (the clipboard) in Windows 10, simply press the Windows flag key at the same time as V.

If you don’t have anything recently copied, you’ll be met with this popup. If you do, it’ll appear in a list here, and all you need to do is click what you want from your copy and paste history in Windows 10.

empty clipboard in windows 10
Credit: Microsoft

If that shortcut doesn’t do anything for you, you’ll want to head into Settings, and open the Systems menu.

From here scroll down the sidebar until you hit clipboard, and then click that and toggle it on in here.

Clipboard enabled in Windows 10
Credit: Microsoft

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The clipboard itself just acts as storage for what you’ve hit copy on recently, so you’ll still need to hit paste on whatever you want to take out of the clipboard, but that bit is the usual behaviour.

Is there anything else?

There’s not that much else to it, it’s a pretty simple system as you’d hope clipboard would be, although Microsoft doesn’t have the best track record with Windows 10 and odd decisions, so I suppose we should be thankful it has a simple keybind.

That’s everything for this short guide, if you didn’t know about Windows 10 Clipboard and its copy and paste history, now you do. Hopefully, this was pretty easy to follow and helped out. If you’d like more tech articles, you can find them on The Click in our Tech section.

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