How to Access the Clipboard History in Windows 10

If you need to copy multiple values from one document to another, you can go and copy & past every value on its own. That works, but there is a better and faster way. Windows 10 comes with a well-hidden clipboard history that you already have on your machine. With this feature you to copy multiple values and then past them to the target document in the order you need to – no 3rd party software required.

You can access the history of your clipboard with the key combination Win + v. If you do this the first time, you get a screen to activate this feature:

You need to turn the clipboard history on

From now on you can copy as you did before and when it comes to pasting a value, you use Win + v to select the entry in the history you want to use:

Select the value you need to past into a document

The 3 dots in every entry open a menu that you can use to pin an entry to top, delete the entry or delete everything in the history:

The three dots on the right corner of an entry are the entry point to the context menu

I hope this little trick helps you as much as it helped me. It does not look like much, but it makes copy & paste so much better.

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