Lost Ability to Retain Multiple Items in Clipboard

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I used to be able to copy up to 24 copied items, which would appear in the
Clipboard Task Pane to the right of my document.
Now each time I copy or cut something new it replaces the previous, just as
it used to in Windows 9x.
Word Help says the loss of the ability to add new items to the Clipboard
could be dure the the fact that there are already too many there.
But it will only accept one at a time.
Any idea why this has happened and how to fix it?
 
Hi JD,

From the Edit menu, click the "Office Clipboard" item.

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benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
Hi Doug,
I did bring up the Clipboard manually (though it's set by Options to open
automatically). This was how I observed that each new copy replaced the
previous one.
Here's something else. Using Windows Explorer I went to
WINNT/System32/Clipboard and opened it. Then with it diminished, the Word
Clipboard would accept multiple items.
I would assume that this Clipboard should load when Word loads, but it
apparently is not. Sound reasonable? If that is the case, would reinstalling
Word perhaps correct this?
Any possibility this could be related to the Norton Anti-virus/Verisign
SNAFU of a week ago? I read something about an Office Plug-in that was
affected by the expired Verisign certificate.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS"
 
As Alice would say, it gets "curiouser and curiouser."
The Options selection for Office Clipboard has "Automacically Open" checked.
Yet it does not open even when I copy multiple consecutive items from the
same document.
I can load the Clipboard taskpane manually using the Edit menu (or Ctrl+cc).
Then consecutive copied items are listed in reverse order, as they should.
It seems that the problem is that the Office Clipboard is not loading
automatically as it should.
I'm also somewhat baffled by the fact that the Options also offer "Collect
and Copy Without Opening Clipboard Taskpane."
This does not become "unchecked" when "Automatically Display Clipboard
Taskpane" is checked.
Bottom line: How can I get the Clipboard to display when I select
consecutive items from a Word document?
According to Word Help, this should happen "automatically," and I know that
as recently as two weeks ago it was happening.
 
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