CLIPBOARD

A holding device that contains the most recently copied or cut text or image such that contents of the clipboard can be pasted one or more times into other parts of the document at hand or other documents. It is usually possible to cross between different software options such as between Windows programs.

A temporary memory area,used to transfer information within a document being edited or between documents or between programsThe fundamental operations are ‘cut’ which moves data from a document to the clipboard,’copy’ which copies it to the clipboard,and ‘paste’ which inserts the clipboard contents into the current document in place of the current selection.