Is there a decent way (or even freeware route) to expand the storage allocation for Windows Clipboard? I don't mean the number of items it stores, I mean the length of text it can copy at once? I keep running into issues putting together long-ish documents where I try Copy and Pasting, but it cuts it off half-way through. I can't even find out what the default allocation for Clipboard is... My Google skills are failing me. TFW2005, you're my only hope!
Microsoft Office extends the Clipboard, although it would be silly to buy Office just for the Clipboard enhancement. Or try these.
I actually DO have Office, but I'm still running into that problem of after I highlight everything I want to copy, and paste it, i have to go back and figure out where the copy left off and do multiple CTL+C/CTL+Vs to get one body of text. I'll go through those google results as well, but most of them seem to just add "instances " of clipboards, not to the size of the clipboard... Thanks for the input and info though!
I can't be sure about this but I believe that the size of the clipboard is directly proportional to the amount of free RAM in your system so if you increase your RAM it should increase the size of your clipboard. I'm not positive though.
what is your machine configuration? ram, disk space etc? I cut and paste megabytes at a time w.o problems! (have you considered upgrading your OS from Windows 95?)
Just trying to fully understand the problem... Are you sure it's the clipboard and not the buffer length of MS Word? I don't have Word to test it, but perhaps that's a possibility. After you paste in what's allowed, can your add more text? What's preventing you from just doing multiple copy & pastes? Also have you tried copy 'n pasting your stuff into a another program like OpenOffice Writer, wordpad or even notepad?
Well, I'm running with 2 GB of RAM, so I wouldn't think that's the issue... I'm running XP SP2 on a 3.2Ghz Intel Pentium D dual core, 2.0 GB of RAM, 160 GB disk (50GB free), with Office 2007. I have tried copying into Wordpad and even Notepad with the same results. I've copied large files and images without any problem before, so don't think it's the memory allocation to Clipboard after all, but I'm wondering if there isn't a number of characters buffer that limits how much raw text you can copy at once, in terms of length. And yeah, I can past more stuff immediately after that, it just seems to limit how much text you can copy at once. Oh well, I've made due by repeated copy/pastes, so it's not an issue, for now at least, it just got me thinking and wondering if there was a solution, that's all. Thanks again to everyone who offered ideas and solutions!
