reverse the office clipboard order!

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DawnTreader

so today i was teaching things about power point to my students in my
business administration class and realised just how much i hate the office
clipboard and why.

when i select 3 bits to copy and paste into a document but in the order that
i chose them, i have to start at the bottom of the clipboard and paste them
in one at a time in from the bottom up. it would be so much simpler to be
able to choose them and then hit the paste all.

why do i have to one at a time? because the order that i copy in is the
reverse of what they would be pasted in because of the behaviour of the
clipboard. either i have to plan the order of my copying so that the top to
bottom order of the pieces on the clipboard are in the order i want them in
or i have to start pasting in one at a time from bottom to top. that is a
waste of my time either way.

i want to select multiple items and then paste them with the paste all and
leave it at that.

so the first suggestion is to make the items come in and stay in the order
from top to bottom as you choose them, basically exactly the reverse of what
it does right now.

the other suggestion is to make it so you can click and drag to rearrange
the order of the clipboard itself and make it easy to paste in the order that
you need.

thanks for listening!

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Bob I

The process is referred to as LIFO, (Last in first out) used for decades
to place items on a "computer stack" and subsequently remove them, and
works very well for those who use stacks for info bits. You use the same
process in UNDO and REDO. Now that you know how and why it works so
well, perhaps you may adjust your method of selection to afford the
"pasting style" that you prefer.
 
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DawnTreader

Well it is time that computers learn to do it the human way. :p

i understand the principle, although i had never realized that this is why
the clipboard did it, but this is human interaction we are talking about
here. if microsoft wants me to "like" a feature they should surely look at
the way i interact with it. at this point i dont interact with it a whole lot
because i dont like thinking like a machine.

why should i adjust anything? this is a computer we are talking about, a
piece of software designed for one reason, to do my bidding.

thanks for the response! and remember this is a suggestion, do you agree
that this suggestion is a good one? :)
 
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Bob I

Add one more option to to the pile for people to change inadvertently
and then get confused about how it works? Good idea? Computers are only
storing what we input. And then stuff fails. Needless complexity only
serves to waste time and money. Would you buy a fork with tines on both
ends of the handle? Good idea because you could eat using either end? NOT!
 
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DawnTreader

Hello

all i can say is wow. how could i have been so blind, of course my idea
would make it too complex...

i think we are already beyond too complex. all of the programs you use on a
computer are far beyond simple. besides, simple is what i am talking about.

last in, first out. hmmm that isnt complex eh? and here is something to
think about, so what if computers and programmers and geeks have been
thinking LIFO? i dont think in LIFO. microsoft can change this, there is no
way you can tell me that changing this behaviour of the clipboard is beyond
thier capabilities. just because it has been that way for a long time doesnt
mean that it shouldnt change.

if that were true then we wouldnt have any of the technilogical marvels that
we do.
 
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Bob I

Let me guess, you're of those folks that lifts the pile of paper and
slips the the new sheet under everything!
 
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DawnTreader

Hello

no, actually. i hate paper. the less of it i use the better. and i would be
like most others with paper, put it on top. but this isnt paper we are
talking about.
 

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