Pasting never clears the Windows Clipboard. You do not recall correctly. The
Office Clipboard also can accumulate a number of items.
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> When I use the "copy" and "paste" features in Word or
> Outlook, the clipboard still retains the copied item after
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> there a way to cause the clipboard to delete a copied item
> automatically once it has been pasted in the new document?