No. Why are you even thinking about it. Why did you need to clear the clipboard. Pasting doesn't clear it. Doesn't touch it, just copies part of it.

If it was a file it is just the location on the clipboard.

> so I was stuck with something on the Clipboard I couldn't paste

So what? How does this affect anything.
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"raymond" <raymond@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9DC78AEB-582E-4005-859E-8E791824B41C@microsoft.com...
> After 'cutting', is there a way to clear the Clipboard other than pasting?
> The question arose because I 'cut' something on a CD using Windows Explorer.
> Of course, I couldn't paste it, because you can't 'cut' something this way
> from a CD, so I was stuck with something on the Clipboard I couldn't paste.
> To clear the Clipboard, I 'cut' something I could paste and pasted it. This
> is mildly onerous.
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> Is there a hot key or something like that you could use to clear the
> Clipboard instead?
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