Troubleshoot collecting and pasting

1. If the Microsoft Office Clipboard is not displayed in the task pane, click Office Clipboard on the Edit menu.

2. On the Clipboard task pane, click Options.

3. Make sure Show Office Clipboard Automatically is selected.

• There may already be 24 items on the Microsoft Office Clipboard If you copy more than 24 items, the Office Clipboard will delete the first item copied and then collect the 25th item. Collected items remain on the Office Clipboard until you close all Office programs running on your computer.

  To begin copying items again, delete some items, or click Clear All on the Clipboard task pane.

• There may be large items on the Office Clipboard The Office Clipboard may stop adding items— even if there are fewer than 24— if you copy large items to it. The Office Clipboard can contain up to 4 megabytes (MB) of data if system RAM is less than 64 MB, or 8 MB if system RAM is 64 MB or greater.

  To begin copying items again, delete some items or click Clear All on the Clipboard task pane. If a single item is larger than 4 MB or 8 MB, you cannot copy the item to the Office Clipboard.

• You may be attempting to copy an item with an unsupported format There are some items that cannot be copied to the Office Clipboard, because the format they are in is not supported.

1. If the Microsoft Office Clipboard is not displayed in the task pane, click Office Clipboard on the Edit menu.

2. On the Clipboard task pane, click Options.

3. Make sure Show Status Near Taskbar When Copying is selected.

• Check one or more of the following:

  The option for displaying the Office Clipboard icon may be turned off.

  1. If the Microsoft Office Clipboard is not displayed in the task pane, click Office Clipboard on the Edit menu.
  2. On the Clipboard task pane, click Options.
  3. Make sure Show Office Clipboard Icon on Taskbar is selected.

  The option for displaying a status message when collecting may be turned off.

  1. If the Microsoft Office Clipboard is not displayed in the task pane, click Office Clipboard on the Edit menu.
  2. On the Clipboard task pane, click Options.
  3. Make sure Show Status Near Taskbar When Copying is selected.

In some cases, such as Unicode text, the image displayed in the gallery will look slightly altered. This is because text is always displayed in the gallery using the default system font, which is typically the Tahoma font. The correct formatting and font information is restored when you paste the item from the gallery.

The Microsoft Office Clipboard is not available anywhere that you cannot use the Copy, Cut, and Paste commands or in the Visual Basic Editor.