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Office 365: Turn Office Clipboard On/Off

Mitch BartlettFebruary 27, 2023 Comments (10)

Turn the Microsoft Office 365 clipboard features on or off using these easy steps.

  1. In Excel, Word, Powerpoint, select the “Home” tab, then select the arrow next to “Clipboard“.
    Word 2016 ClipboardIn Outlook, start composing a message, then select the “Message” menu. From there, select the arrow next to the copy/paste icon, then choose “Office clipboard…”
    Outlook Office Clipboard option
  2. Select “Options” at the bottom-left of the window.
    Word 2016 Clipboard Selections
    Select or deselect options as desired:

    • Show Office Clipboard Automatically – Enables or disables the appearance of the Office Clipboard sidebar.
    • Show Office Clipboard When CTRL + C is Pressed Twice – Enables or disables ability to bring up clipboard sidebar by pressing C while holding CTRL key twice.
    • Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard – Automatically copies items without displaying the clipboard sidebar.
    • Show Office Clipboard Icon on Taskbar – Enables or disables the icon in the Windows Taskbar.
    • Show Status Near Taskbar When Copying – Enables or disables the yellow box that appears in the lower-right corner that says “Item collected” when copying items.
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Author Mitch Bartlett

Through my career that spans over 20 years I have become an expert in Microsoft Systems Administration, Android, and macOS. I started this site as a technical guide for myself and it has grown into what I hope is a useful knowledgebase for everyone.

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Comments

  1. David says:
    January 8, 2024 at 6:45 pm

    nice place to HIDE IT!!! omg

  2. Kristal Valentine says:
    May 19, 2022 at 9:30 pm

    I found this on another site and it worked!

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/macro-takes-longer-than-expected-to-execute-many-individual-copy-and-paste-operations-in-excel-2010-and-later-403dc927-b7e7-7096-0cc8-bd8a2b1e685c

  3. FARhan says:
    March 10, 2021 at 10:48 am

    i was using command + c or v in mac magic keyboard. problem solved by using ctrl + C OR V

  4. Carol Bethel says:
    February 22, 2021 at 11:15 am

    I want to turn the Clipboard Task Pane ON so I can pick which cut to insert. There is no arrow at the lower right corner of the clipboard menu item. thanks,

  5. Ben Marecos says:
    May 27, 2020 at 11:31 am

    SOLUTION!

    Locate the clopboard icon, usually at the bottom left corner. Right click on the icon and select “Stop collecting”. That will disable office 365 clipboard.

    You are welcome :)

  6. As says:
    July 4, 2019 at 12:03 am

    It only changes how this freaking Office Clipboard is displayed.
    It DOE NOT disable or change its pathological behavior.

  7. Rashid says:
    November 8, 2018 at 8:10 am

    >>I want to know how to turn the clipboard OFF. It keeps clipping from Outlook email all the time.
    This should help –
    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2817672/macro-takes-longer-than-expected-to-execute-many-individual-copy-and-p

  8. Marsh says:
    February 22, 2018 at 10:32 am

    Similar problem as Tom Craig’s. Since I went to Office 2016 anything I copy once from Outlook or MSWord appears on clipboard multiple times. I need to turn the clipboard OFF. I use Spartan and this glitch keeps chewing up the clipboard and my time to clear it.

  9. tom says:
    January 26, 2018 at 3:33 pm

    . It keeps clipping from Outlook email all the time, without my knowing. Then I am faced with the message, “you have a full clipboard, do you want to copy it” or something like that.

    This is in outlook 2016. Can’t find anything how to fix this. Help

  10. tom craig says:
    January 20, 2018 at 8:29 am

    No. I want to know how to turn the clipboard OFF. It keeps clipping from Outlook email all the time.

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Last Updated on February 27, 2023 by Mitch Bartlett