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Use Spike to cut and paste multiple text items in Word

Use Spike to cut and paste multiple text items in Word

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A handy and useful feature that you may not be aware of

Copy and Paste Multiple Items to the Clipboard in Word

There's a little-known feature in Word that allows you to collect groups of text and/or images from different locations in a Word document and then paste all that text into a different location.

It’s called the Spike, and it’s different from the Clipboard, which lets you work with just one copied set of text at a time. The Spike is named after an old-fashioned paper holder that people would stick papers into when they were done with them. You may still see the old-fashioned version of the Spike in use in some stores.

NOTE: The Spike feature is available in versions of Word 97 through 2016.