You've been copy and pasting wrong

Don't copy and paste multiple items. Instead, copy all the items you need and then press this shortcut key to paste anything from your clipboard history.

#windows11

[mattnice]

Windows + V was introduced in 2018 so unless you're 5 years old you haven't been doing it wrong your whole life. Also, while it is useful, most copying and pasting is pretty simple and using this shortcut isn't going to save you much time. The main use is when the text you want to paste isn't at the top of the clipboard because you copied something else.

[chezchezchezchez]

it didn't work like that my WHOLE life.

[ElderTechDragon]

To add my voice to the chorus below, this feature wasn't available for the first 35 years of my IT career.

[xnetpc]

My whole life?! I was introduced to Cut and Paste in the late 1980s when I first used Microsoft Works on MS-DOS 3.3. At the time, there was no Windows key on a standard PC keyboard. I didn’t have a mouse yet at that time. So I was limited to using CTRL C, X, A, and V, or pressing Alt, Then going to Edit, and Choose Cut, Copy, Paste and Select All. Selecting text was done by pressing shift and using the arrow keys to highlight what I wanted to copy.
I may have more history using computers than a lot of people here, but most of us have been alive longer than the modern Windows clipboard has been around Saying people have been using cut and paste wrong our entire life implies the option to use Win + V has been available a lot longer than it has been.

[Goodriddence]

You don't know my life. Windows 95 didn't do this...

[michaelkamal]

Please, be honest next time, it’s a new feature in windows 10 and 11.
You usually make great contents, so please, keep it up with honesty

[solojammer]

When beginners think they're experts 😂

[Lunchbox]

This is a feature that must be turned on, and for good reason, could be possible security risk.

[randmshits]

Believe me, second method is far more time consuming!

[nimamaster]

Clipboard history is a fairly recent addition to windows, i think about 4 years ago. I had this idea before win 10 release but couldn't find a way to ask microsoft for it. Glad they added it anyways. Another useful tip for CH is that whatever you pin to the clipboard stays there forever even after a restart.

[AntonApostolov]

i love videos "you were wrong your entire life". i am sure they will open my eyes so widely i may never be able to close them again

[zackdreak]

Can’t wait for the “you have been playing video games wrong your entire life because you didn’t use a 13th i9 with 4090 and didn’t use ray tracing since the day you were born” video.

[windmaomao]

I didn't miss much for my entire life. Thanks.

[ofekn]

Another thing people don't do is selecting areas using the shift+arrows. sometimes it's quicker to use the mouse, but as a programmer when working with text, it's much quicker to use the arrows to navigate, select and move text around.

[tyronjackson]

You can also select the text and drag it into the word document, which would’ve been the fastest/easiest way to do in this situation.

[heavyferrum]

This is by far the most helpful youtube short I've evet seen.

[Yet_Another_Steve]

NOW you tell me. Been using tracing paper for the last 50 years.

[missilemahmood]

Your entire life is since windows 10 introduced this clipboard history thing.
My entire life has been since the days of windows 98.
We are not the same.

[alpha_alpha_male]

For someone who has had reoccuring copy/paste issues on windows 11, this actually bypassed the bug, thanks!

[oaklandgraphics]

This kid wasn't even alive for Windows 3.11 and probably never even heard of DOS.