Beyond basic Copy and Paste, you can do things like copy without text styling, or copy only the style. You can copy and paste files. You can copy text without even opening the document. You can even copy and paste between your Mac and iPhone.
Comments: 7 Responses to “10 Hidden Copy and Paste Functions on a Mac”
Bern Shanfield
1 week ago
While 3rd party, TextSniper is a nice upgrade to screenshotting, selecting the screenshot, and selecting text to get non-selectable text on the Clipboard as just the act of dragging a selection box over text with TexSniper puts it directly on the Clipboard.
It's worthwhile if you do this regularly.
Sheldon
1 week ago
Thanks bunches
Joel D Canfield
1 week ago
I've used computers since the 70s and you still teach me surprising things. The fact that the text in the floating thumbnail of a screenshot is selectable is amazing. I'm used to text being auto-OCRed by my phone, but that's a new one.
LIZ GUILLE
7 days ago
Try as I have I can’t find your ClipTools in the App Store- any ways to get a link to it, or is only available to US audiences? Thanks
While 3rd party, TextSniper is a nice upgrade to screenshotting, selecting the screenshot, and selecting text to get non-selectable text on the Clipboard as just the act of dragging a selection box over text with TexSniper puts it directly on the Clipboard.
It's worthwhile if you do this regularly.
Thanks bunches
I've used computers since the 70s and you still teach me surprising things. The fact that the text in the floating thumbnail of a screenshot is selectable is amazing. I'm used to text being auto-OCRed by my phone, but that's a new one.
Try as I have I can’t find your ClipTools in the App Store- any ways to get a link to it, or is only available to US audiences? Thanks
Liz: Just searching for "ClipTools" in the Mac App Store should bring it right up, worldwide. But here is the direct link: https://apps.apple.com/app/cliptools/id1619348240
Thank you Gary! You provide the best, hidden tricks. 🤩
Gary, you constantly amaze me with your knowledge of the workings of the Mac system, this video makes shortcut sense. Thank you.