Where is the clipboard for word 2016?

So I think a user-to-user answer to this question is that there is no Windows style clipboard for Mac. They have a Clipboard, but it's rudimentary. You open or view it by clicking on Finder, then clicking Edit, then Show Clipboard. This allows you to view the last thing you copied/cut. The viewing window does not stay open if you are trying to use Word or any other program, however, and it doesn't seem to hold very much data - only one item at a time.
I found a free app called Copyclip that I'm taking for a spin, but you could just search for Clipboard in the Appstore, and it will give you several Mac compatible apps that hold a history of items you have copied/cut anywhere in any document. Copyclip was the highest rated free app, and it seems to be working fairly well so far. I've only copied text with it, but it does have a scroll down menu, and it's easily accessible and stays visible while you're using other programs. I hope this helps 🙂

I found this link in the Microsoft communities. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_mac-mso_mac 2016/clipboard-in-word-2016-for-mac/1761fbbe-f8b0-4f3a-89b6-62f822edc2b3?auth=1

Seems that for Office 2016, they do now have a Clipboard pane like exists in the Windows version. It appears from reading that it has to do with the way clipboard works for a Mac. I teach Office 2016 at our community college, and I know that we teach the Windows version. I have student starting to come to class, or participate in my online version that use the Mac operating system. It has made it more difficult on me since I don't know the Mac systemd, and don't have access to a Mac computer. Hope that helps.

I accidentally pressed 'helpful' and now don't know how to retract this. I meant to say; really unhelpful and quite rude. Did not help my search for information on this subject at all and was rude to previous person. Maybe consider not giving advice on communities?

I've read a few of these replies, and have a few observations: coming from a customer's point of view, this function of a clipboard is essential to creating many, many different documents. Simply getting snippy with your customer base for repeatedly voicing a valid concern does not help anyone. Is there any way the clipboard function Mac already uses can be made to stay open when you click away from Finder? One would think, with an operating system this cool, that one of the basic functions wouldn't be so far behind the competition. Just saying. Apple is sort of known for being the Creative Person's Computer. Why make your customers go somewhere else for something they really do need when being all "creative?"

This is a user-to-user support community. With the exception of the Apple hosts that manage, and maintain this website, all assistance that you receive is from international volunteers, not Apple employees. So you are not critiquing Apple employees here for their customer support commitment. There are community guidelines about conduct though, and some stray — thinking they are on Twitter, instead of a helping nature.

Apple continues to use the same clipboard functionality as in their beginning. It is a single-level, unordered, garbage in (copy), garbage out (paste) scheme. Any new copy to the clipboard replaces the previous content, with unlimited paste from the current clipboard contents between the Finder, and any applications that support the Apple clipboard, and its current data format on it.

The Terminal has the pbcopy, and pbpaste utilities that also access the clipboard. There are third-party clipboard utilities in the Mac App Store that offer extended clipboard features.

For starters, you're yelling at the wrong company. Apple does not have the source code for Office, nor can they tell Microsoft what to do with their apps. If you want to gripe to someone about the lack of a multi-clipboard in Office 2016 for Mac, go to Microsoft's forums.

I did some searching, and there still isn't a multi-clipboard in Office 2016, if you have the perpetual license version. It seems to be in Office 365, though. One page on Microsoft's site explains how to use it. Going by that, I looked for the same function in Office 2016 for Mac. It doesn't exist.

Plenty of people asking for it on Microsoft's Office 2016 Mac forum. Feel free to join in.

When you say "windows-style clipboard" you actually mean "office-for-windows-style-clipboard".

AFAIK the windows clipboard works just like in the mac, except for the shortcuts.

[They use control-c instead of command-c, and likewise for paste, cut, save, etc.; the reason being that when windows first appeared on the pc the mac already had these standard shortcuts, but the pc had no command key, so they used the same letters but used control instead of command]

As was stated already in this thread, only Microsoft can answer why they implemented a pasteboard manager in Office for Windows and not in Office for Mac.

I've read all of the comments and several completely miss the point. Doing a long document you often want to store several items and use them out of order and repeatedly. This is hugely useful. Enough that I would not buy ios machines for my staff (legal firm) because of this lack.

OK - so I'm on a Mac which runs the latest version of software (El Capitane?). I use MS Office - including Word - on that machine. I tried to find another thread on the topic and couldn't. I also can't find clipboard within this version of Word. And the tread did not seem to end in a resolution.

Your reply is couched unpleasantly, unnecessarily so. You might take account of the fact that I'm level 1 (new to support groups) and you are level 9 (experienced).

Office 2011 for Mac supposedly had what MS called a Scrapbook function. Similar to the clipboard in the Windows version of Office that could hold multiple clipboard items. That seems to be gone in Office 2016.

To get around that, use one of the many types of multi-clipboard apps available. Such as Copy'em Paste in the App Store.

Basically, look around for Mac clipboard managers. Test a few and use the one you think works best for you. The App Store has quite a few. From free (pretty much only hold unformatted text), to pricier. But the better ones can hold text, formatted text, images, and more.

I'm not at my Mac to check, but it never has been in the File menu. Try the Edit menu.

And, you can paste the same thing all day long, until you replace it with something else.

suggfrom広島市 wrote:

Thanks for this.....it's not coming up in the Edit menu either! So I can't keep a history of 20 different things on the clipboard ala Windows word? Oh dear...

Not unless Microsoft has implemented some other pasteboard within Office.

The Edit menu is the normal location for a Show Clipboard command, but Microsoft tends to roll its own windows, menus, and other UI, etc. I didn't find anything related in the Customize Keyboard dialog, so it likely doesn't exist.

Where do I find Clipboard in Word 2016 (Mac version). It was so very useful, in its absence one has to copy the same things repeatedly even if it is to be used several times in different order.

Oh come on!!! We have to go forward not Backward please...

Research & development should be aimed towards "un-complicating" things and not to COMPLICATE.

You should probably be asking Microsoft since it's their product...