Clipboard Toolbar (Office 2000)

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This is an Office question rather than a particular Outlook one:

I know most people love this Clipboard Toolbar that pops up every time you happen to copy two consecutive things. I just hate it. Is there a way to disable it, and further, to prevent it from ever popping up again?

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I hate it too, although it does have its uses. You can disable this by clicking Edit – Office Clipboard or waiting for it to reappear, and then changing the option to Show Office Clipboard Automatically.

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Hi Mark,

I can’t find the Office Clipboard option under any Edit menu -neither in Outloook’s main Edit menu nor in the message window Edit menu-. Am I missing something?

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You may be, if those irritating adaptive menus are still turned on. If you see a chevron at the bottom of the Edit menu, try clicking it to reveal all of the options.

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Hi Mark,

You bet the first thing I did after installing Office was disable the infuriating adaptive menus. Everything is displayed, but there’s no Office Clipboard option under Edit…
JIC, I have Office 2000 SR-1 if it helps…

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Eh, yes it does help. I misunderstood, I thought you were using Office XP…

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Eh, yes it does help. I misunderstood, I thought you were using Office XP…

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What you’re looking for is set out in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 207438.

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On a related issue, but with Office 2003, I have been looking for a way to permanently hide the automatic Clipboard View of the Task Pane except when I actually want it. (Not the Startup Task Panes, I have already shut them down.) I was just upgraded from 2000 to 2003, and all I could find on this was Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 286374. In particular, the Clipboard Task Pane is annoying me in Excel. However, in the process of writing this question, I set (checked/ticked) the Task Pane Option for “Show Office Clipboard when Ctrl-C pressed Twice”, with all other Clipboard Task Pane display options unchecked, and that seems to have done it. I’ll post back if not.

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And then there’s the custom icon code:

Sub TaskPane()
    With Application.CommandBars("Task Pane")
        If .Visible = True Then
            .Visible = False
        Else: .Visible = True
        End If
    End With
End Sub

HTH

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And then there’s the custom icon code:

Sub TaskPane()
    With Application.CommandBars("Task Pane")
        If .Visible = True Then
            .Visible = False
        Else: .Visible = True
        End If
    End With
End Sub

HTH

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Hi John:
Doesn’t the article that unkamunka posted in post 358492 work in Word 2003 (after changing the version from 9 to 11)? That registry edit sure worked in Word 2000.

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Phil, because that KB so specifically talks about the ClipBoard TB, I assumed it didn’t apply to the Pane in ’03 (we both know what can happen when we ‘ass-u-me’). I’ll look into it, but for now the “Press Ctrl-C twice” is the behavior I want.

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Phil, because that KB so specifically talks about the ClipBoard TB, I assumed it didn’t apply to the Pane in ’03 (we both know what can happen when we ‘ass-u-me’). I’ll look into it, but for now the “Press Ctrl-C twice” is the behavior I want.

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and if I want my office clipboard to always display in all my ms -XP apps do you know what the registry edit would be?
Diana

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Hi Diana:
The article that Mark points to in post 358492 doesn’t specifically say how to modify the registry to get the feature to work. That’s because it’s suppose to work by default. However, if you follow the steps that the KB article suggests, BUT use the DWORD value of 0, rather than 1, I bet it would do what you want. As usual, back up the registry before making any changes.
Cheers,

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cheers Phil…Diana

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cheers Phil…Diana

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Hi Phil

I’ve amended the registry key as suggested. however when I fire up my office apps & copy cut paste my office clipboard doesnt appear. it only appears when I manually goto the menu Edit>Office clipboard.
i thought the office clipboard is supposed to display automatically> in my office clipboard options i have set the setting Options>Show Office clipboard automatically.
have i misunderstood these settings? is there a way to display the office clipboard automatically.

many thanks diana

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Hi Diana:
In all previous versions, it displayed automatically if you cut or copied two items in a row. I don’t have Word 2003 to test. Try starting Word at the command line with
winword.exe /a
& see if it displays then (after two successive copies). If it does, then follow the steps in post 197827 to see what is causing it. If it doesn’t, then I don’t know.
Hope this helps,

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Hi Diana:
In all previous versions, it displayed automatically if you cut or copied two items in a row. I don’t have Word 2003 to test. Try starting Word at the command line with
winword.exe /a
& see if it displays then (after two successive copies). If it does, then follow the steps in post 197827 to see what is causing it. If it doesn’t, then I don’t know.
Hope this helps,

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Hi Phil

I’ve amended the registry key as suggested. however when I fire up my office apps & copy cut paste my office clipboard doesnt appear. it only appears when I manually goto the menu Edit>Office clipboard.
i thought the office clipboard is supposed to display automatically> in my office clipboard options i have set the setting Options>Show Office clipboard automatically.
have i misunderstood these settings? is there a way to display the office clipboard automatically.

many thanks diana

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Hi Diana:
The article that Mark points to in post 358492 doesn’t specifically say how to modify the registry to get the feature to work. That’s because it’s suppose to work by default. However, if you follow the steps that the KB article suggests, BUT use the DWORD value of 0, rather than 1, I bet it would do what you want. As usual, back up the registry before making any changes.
Cheers,

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and if I want my office clipboard to always display in all my ms -XP apps do you know what the registry edit would be?
Diana

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Hi John:
Doesn’t the article that unkamunka posted in post 358492 work in Word 2003 (after changing the version from 9 to 11)? That registry edit sure worked in Word 2000.

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On a related issue, but with Office 2003, I have been looking for a way to permanently hide the automatic Clipboard View of the Task Pane except when I actually want it. (Not the Startup Task Panes, I have already shut them down.) I was just upgraded from 2000 to 2003, and all I could find on this was Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 286374. In particular, the Clipboard Task Pane is annoying me in Excel. However, in the process of writing this question, I set (checked/ticked) the Task Pane Option for “Show Office Clipboard when Ctrl-C pressed Twice”, with all other Clipboard Task Pane display options unchecked, and that seems to have done it. I’ll post back if not.

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EXCELLENT. It has already taken effect!!

Thank you!!

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EXCELLENT. It has already taken effect!!

Thank you!!

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Hi Mark,

You bet the first thing I did after installing Office was disable the infuriating adaptive menus. Everything is displayed, but there’s no Office Clipboard option under Edit…
JIC, I have Office 2000 SR-1 if it helps…

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You may be, if those irritating adaptive menus are still turned on. If you see a chevron at the bottom of the Edit menu, try clicking it to reveal all of the options.

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Hi Mark,

I can’t find the Office Clipboard option under any Edit menu -neither in Outloook’s main Edit menu nor in the message window Edit menu-. Am I missing something?

Thanks

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I hate it too, although it does have its uses. You can disable this by clicking Edit – Office Clipboard or waiting for it to reappear, and then changing the option to Show Office Clipboard Automatically.

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Take a look at some earlier posts on how to deal with misbehaved toolbars: post 299216 (disable Web toolbar, Word’s Reviewing toolbar); post 174428 (lock Clipboard toolbar in place in Outlook so at least it doesn’t pop up at you).

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Thank you Jefferson. I’ll have a look.

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Thank you Jefferson. I’ll have a look.

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Take a look at some earlier posts on how to deal with misbehaved toolbars: post 299216 (disable Web toolbar, Word’s Reviewing toolbar); post 174428 (lock Clipboard toolbar in place in Outlook so at least it doesn’t pop up at you).

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