Clipboard sharing allows you to cut and paste text from programs running on your Windows-based computer to programs running on your Macintosh computer.
When you cut or copy text from a program, it is moved to the Windows Clipboard and remains there until you clear the Clipboard or until you cut or copy another piece of text. The Windows Clipboard window shows the contents of the Clipboard and can be seen when you run the ClipBook Viewer (Clipbrd.exe). You can paste the text from the Clipboard into any document as often as you like. However, the text is stored on the Clipboard only temporarily.
The Windows Clipboard synchronizes its contents with the Macintosh clipboard. You can cut or copy only Plain Text (TXT), Rich Text Format (RTF) text, or Unicode text from a document on the Windows-based computer and paste it into a document on your Macintosh computer.
For information about transferring files and folders between your Windows-based computer and your Macintosh computer, see Make your Macintosh drives available to the Windows-based computer.
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