Re: reverse the office clipboard order!

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

DawnTreader wrote:

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.

"Bob I" wrote:


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!

DawnTreader wrote:


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? :)

"Bob I" wrote:



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.

DawnTreader wrote:


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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