In this post, I’ll explain how to use MS Word’s clipboard history feature, provide a link for how to turn on Windows 10 clipboard history, and even better, provide information about a standalone free application called Clipdiary that saves all text history plus all your screenshots! Just think of the operating system as having a short-term memory when it comes to clipboard history in regard to default settings. Anything other than what you just copied is basically lost forever.
This is why you cannot find the previous things you copied. In the Windows 10 default state, the clipboard is constantly being overwritten by any subsequent thing you copy to the clipboard. Operating systems like Windows 10 only copy one thing to the clipboard at a time and don’t store any history unless you manually adjust settings.
