Cut, Copy, and the Clipboard
Almost anywhere you can type, you can cut or copy text.When you cut text (or a graphic), it is removed from your document and placed on the "Clipboard."When you copy text (or a graphic), the original text is intact in your document and a copy of it is placed on the Clipboard.Well, what the heck is a Clipboard?
The Clipboard is an invisible "container" somewhere in the depths of the Mac. It temporarily holds whatever you have cut or copied, be it text, spreadsheet data, graphics, an entire folder, etc. Once something is on the Clipboard, it waits there until you paste it somewhere (we'll get to that in a minute).The most important thing to remember about the Clipboard is that it holds only one thing at a time; that is, as soon as you cut or copy something else, whatever was in the Clipboard to begin with is replaced by the new selection.In some programs, including the Finder, you'll find a menu command called "Show Clipboard," usually in the Edit menu. When you can see it, the Clipboard appears as a window with its contents displayed, as shown below. In most programs, though, you never see the actual Clipboardyou have to simply trust it.
The Clipboard appears as a window (if it's available for looking at in your program). No matter where you copied or cut an item from, you can always go to the Finder's Edit menu and show the Clipboard to see what you've got.Items will stay on the Clipboard even when you change applications: you can put a paint image on the Clipboard in a paint program, then open a word processing document and paste the paint image into a letter.Items will disappear from the Clip-board when the computer is turned off or if there is a power failure, so don't count on keeping something in the Clipboard for very long! |
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