The copy-and-paste feature in Windows 10 is set to change enormously with the next update of the operating system.
Windows Latest reports that with Windows 10 Build 20185, Microsoft is redesigning the Clipboard feature – which records copied text and images – to add a new panel that allows emojis, GIFs and other content to be inserted into documents, emails and messages.
The new clipboard panel, which will still be accessible by pressing the Windows key and V, includes an emoji section that gives access to a full suite of emojis, as well as a landing page with the ones you use the most. It also has a GIF section that serves trending GIFs and a search feature so you can dig around for the perfect GIF to beat spam on Slack.
The latest Windows 10 build also adds a Clipboard History feature, which surprisingly provides a snapshot of the recent content you’ve copied and pasted. Such an option exists in the current iteration of clipboard, but it is somewhat limited because it can only accommodate up to 25 text entries. The new history feature removes that limit and also supports other HTML content and images, instead of just text.
Much like Microsoft’s redesign of the Windows 10 Start menu, this is just a small change that can have a fairly significant impact by making the day-to-day work in Windows that much easier. And easier processes mean that people can do things much faster and more efficiently.
Furthermore, richer copy-and-paste features will certainly make it easier to move information and images, and allow you to track things like copied links or text snippets, which can easily disappear in the day-to-day use of computers.
The new clipboard is made for use in Windows 10X, Microsoft’s version of Windows designed to work on dual-display touchscreen devices such as the Surface Neo. But Windows 10X development is apparently slow, and it seems that Microsoft is set to bring some of its features to the full version of Windows 10 in the near future.
Currently, Windows 10 Build 20185 is only available to members of the Windows Insider program. But many of the changes made in this test environment tend to make it over to the full release of Windows 10, so we expect the new clipboard to shake sooner rather than later how we copy and paste forever .
