1. Make sure that the Microsoft Office Clipboard is displayed in the task pane (task pane: A window within an Office application that provides commonly used commands. Its location and small size allow you to use these commands while still working on your files.) of any open Office program or the Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard option is turned on.
   • If you want to display the Office Clipboard in the active program, click Office Clipboard on the Edit menu.
   • If you want to check the Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard option, display the Office Clipboard, click Options, and then make sure the Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard option is checked.
2. Select the first item you want to copy.
3. On the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.), click Copy .
4. Continue copying items from documents in any Office program until you have collected all of the items you want (up to 24).

Note  In some cases such as Unicode (Unicode: A character encoding standard developed by the Unicode Consortium. By using more than one byte to represent each character, Unicode enables almost all of the written languages in the world to be represented by using a single character set.) text, the image displayed in the gallery will look slightly altered. This is because text is always displayed in the gallery using the Tahoma font. However, the correct formatting and font information is restored when the item is pasted from the gallery.

1. If the Microsoft Office Clipboard is not displayed in the task pane (task pane: A window within an Office application that provides commonly used commands. Its location and small size allow you to use these commands while still working on your files.), click Office Clipboard on the Edit menu.

   Note  If the Office Clipboard is not available, you are in a program or view that doesn't support showing or pasting multiple items from the Office Clipboard.

2. Click where you want the items to be pasted. You can paste collected items into any Microsoft Office program.
3. Do one of the following:
   • To paste items one at a time, on the Office Clipboard, click each item you want to paste.
   • To paste all the items you copied, click Paste All on the Clipboard task pane.