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Here’s another way the Windows 10 Clipboard has grown up: Now

whatever you’ve copied can magically and instantly appear on any other
Windows 10 computers you’ve got (and that you’ve signed into with the
same Microsoft ID), ready for pasting.

If this feature interests you, open → → System → Clipboard, and
turn on “Sync across devices.” You should also make a choice between
“Automatically sync text that I copy” (which works as you’d expect) and

“Never automatically sync text that I copy,” which is a more
secure/paranoid option. It rules out the possibility that you might copy a
password or a sexy email on Computer A, and that some snoopy person

might log in as you on Computer B and find that text on the synced
Clipboard.

In any case, that’s all there is to it. Copy something (text only, and not very

much of it) on Computer A, then scoot your chair over to Computer B and
paste. Presto—there it is!

Tip

Microsoft says that soon, you’ll be able to paste Computer A’s copied text onto your Android
phone, too—as long as it uses the SwiftKey virtual keyboard, which Microsoft owns.

Drag and Drop

As useful and popular as it is, the Copy/Paste routine doesn’t win any

awards for speed; after all, it requires four steps. In many cases, you can
replace it with the far more direct (and enjoyable) drag-and-drop method.

Figure 6-9 illustrates how it works.

Tip
To drag highlighted material offscreen, drag the cursor until it approaches the top or bottom edge
of the window. The document scrolls automatically; as you approach the destination, jerk the
mouse away from the edge of the window to stop the scrolling.