How to Copy Multiple Items at Once on Windows (2026 Guide)

Ctrl+C on Windows keeps one clip in a single slot. The next copy from a browser or a sheet, a street address or an order number, replaces that slot on this PC. You can keep the earlier clip with Win+V, a panel of 25 clips, or with a clipboard program that has its own list and a search box.

Copy the lines you need on the source window, switch to the destination once, and paste an earlier row into that window. The same pattern for code, including a stack trace and a later fix, is on the page about an earlier code clip.

Win+V, the list already on Windows

Windows 10 version 1809 added clipboard history, and Windows 11 still opens that same panel with Win+V over the window you are using. The list stays off until you turn it on from the panel or from the Clipboard page in Settings on this PC. Open System, then the Clipboard page, and switch Clipboard history to On. The Turn on button in the Win+V panel writes that same switch.

Copy with Ctrl+C as usual, and each new clip joins the panel up to a cap of 25 text clips and images on this PC. Press Win+V and click the row you want. Arrow keys move the selection, and Enter pastes that row at the cursor. A file you copy in File Explorer stays out of that list, because Windows still treats the file as an ordinary one-slot paste.

Pin a row you paste often, such as an address or a block of boilerplate, by clicking the pin icon beside it in the panel. The pin stays in the panel on the next start of Windows. Every unpinned clip is removed on that same start. Click that pin again if the row should age out with the other unpinned clips on the next start. Delete one private row from the panel. Clear on the Clipboard page empties the rest and leaves the pins in place.

The panel has no search box, so you scroll the thumbnails for a line that is not the newest of the 25. Settings has no field for a different cap, and there is no plain-text paste in that Windows panel. Text can move to another Windows PC when Sync across your devices is on for the same Microsoft account in Clipboard settings. Images from the copy stay on this PC, in the same panel, on the same Windows 11 desktop. That sync switch is still in Settings. It is off until you turn it on.

A separate list when 25 clips is not enough

A clipboard program keeps its own list beside Win+V on this PC, with search and with clips that are not wiped just because you restarted. The ones named on this site are QuickBoard, Ditto, and CopyQ. QuickBoard is the clipboard tool in PeakFlow. Ditto is open source and can share clips with computers on the local network. CopyQ can run a script on a clip. The side-by-side page is what QuickBoard, Ditto, CopyQ, and Win+V each keep.

With QuickBoard, copy the rows you need on the source window. Switch once, then press Ctrl+Shift+V to paste an earlier row into the document. The history field starts at 500 and accepts any number from 10 to 2000, with pinned clips sitting above that cap. Unpinned clips older than 24 hours are removed by default, and pinned clips stay past that removal on this PC.

Search in QuickBoard is fuzzy, so a fragment of yesterday's line is enough to find the row without scrolling the whole list. A plain-text paste mode strips fonts when the editor should not inherit a heading from the browser. You can edit the text of a clip in the list before that paste into the file.

QuickBoard beside the Windows panel

PeakFlow is six tools in one Windows installer, and you can turn each tool on or off without removing the others from the PC. The free QuickBoard list includes history, copy, paste, pins, fuzzy full-text search, image clips, source tracking, edit text, and link preview. The free download asks for no account and includes no telemetry from the suite. The Windows build is PeakFlow Setup 1.6.5, a 134 MB installer, from the download on this site.

QuickBoard does not record the copy when the window title matches 1Password, Bitwarden, LastPass, KeePass, Dashlane, RoboForm, Keeper, NordPass, Enpass, Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, PayPal, Windows Security, Credential Manager, or User Account Control. Secret-like text stays in the list with the characters masked, rather than being thrown out of the store. Encryption of that store is a Pro switch that starts off. Tags, collections, custom hotkeys, and the AI clipboard actions are Pro as well. The download includes a 14-day Pro trial. Pro is $6.99 a month, or $39.99 a year, which the price page shows as $3.33 a month.

Copy the set, then paste it

Stay on the source window and copy every line you will need, whether that is five cells, ten quotes, or a stack trace plus the line you mean to try as a fix. Switch to the destination once. Use Win+V for a set still inside 25 clips, on a PC you have not restarted since those copies. Use Ctrl+Shift+V when you need search, plain text, or a clip from earlier in the day.

Pin the lines you paste on most days so a restart or the 24-hour removal does not take them before the unpinned rows. For a password, use the password app's own fill rather than either clipboard list on this PC. QuickBoard already skips the named password and bank windows, and it masks secret-like text that still gets into the list. The longer explanation is what a clipboard manager keeps after Win+V drops a clip.

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