There are many occasions when you may want to use data, in the form of text or pictures, created in one application in a second application. For example you may want to include a chart created in Excel in a Word for Windows document. This is easy to do using the commands Cut, Copy, Paste, and Paste Special, found in the Edit menu. The clipboard is an area where data can be temporarily stored. It is always available.
Data can be either cut or copied to the clipboard.
If the data is cut from an application it is deleted from the workspace and copied to the clipboard. If data is copied , it remains in the workspace and a copy is placed in the clipboard. Data in the clipboard remains there until either another cut or copy is performed, which overwrites the current contents of the clipboard, or the Windows session is ended. Cut, Copy, and Paste commands can be found in the Edit menu of most Windows applications. There are two sets of shortcut keys for cut, copy and paste.