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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

clipboard

In a cut (or copy) and paste operation, the data is held in a temporary storage area called the clipboard. Data held in these storage areas will normally remain there until overwritten by new data, so allowing an exact copy of the original to be pasted in more than one place.

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copy and pastecut and pastepastepaste specialworking storecopyoverwritescratch filescratch padapplication
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