
Any text or image under 4MB is saved to the history, back to the point at which you rebooted your computer. It turns out that opening a history of your copied text and images is super easy, barely an inconvenience: press Win+V on your keyboard. I did a quick search on our sister site, How-To Geek, and found the guide. But then I recalled: Windows 10 can remember your clipboard history, as of about a year and a half ago! It seemed as if I’d just blown my entire afternoon. I checked through the Docs history and the WordPress window, just in case several hours of my life were hiding behind a stray tab. Welcome to Quick Tips, a series where we offer tips and tricks that aren’t necessarily new but may have gone under the radar or otherwise not be well known.Īnd, I’d already copied another small bit of text for another part of the review. I didn’t notice the missing section of my review immediately, and Google Docs uncharacteristically failed to save about three hours of edits. This problem gets aggravated when you are switching between documents that contain the source items and the target documents or doing more than two different tasks that can be.

It’s about 2100 words, 1500 of which temporarily disappeared as I copied them from Google Docs (where I do all of my writing) into WordPress. Whenever you copy something from a text file, word document or a chat window, you often run into a problem of being not able to paste the previously copied item. This weekend I wrote a review for the OnePlus 8 smartphone, which you can read here.
