The clipboard is an area of RAM allocated by the operating system or individual applications for intermediate storage of data copied into it. Typically, the clipboard is used to transfer data from one application to another, or between two different areas of the same application. For the operation of placing data into this intermediate storage in Windows OS, the hotkeys ctrl + c and ctrl + Insert are used. However, the operation of copying hyperlinks to the clipboard has some peculiarities.
Instructions
Step 1
Move the mouse cursor over the link you want to place on the clipboard and right-click. If this link is located on a website page open in your browser, then in the context menu that appears, there will be a line with the command to copy the link address. Depending on the type of browser, it can be formulated with some differences. In Google Chrome and Opera this item is named "Copy link address", in Internet Explorer - "Copy shortcut", in Mozilla FireFox and Apple Safari - "Copy link". In any case, the selection of this item performs the same action - it places the link address on the clipboard.
Step 2
If you need to copy a link in a text document in Microsoft Office Word format, you need to hover the mouse cursor over the word to which this link is attached, right-click and select "Copy Hyperlink" from the pop-up context menu.
Step 3
In the spreadsheet editor Microsoft Office Excel, you will not be able to copy a link in the same way as in Word - there is no copy command in the context menu that drops out when you right-click on a table cell containing a link. Select another line from this menu - "Change hyperlink". As a result, a window will open where the link you need will be placed in the "Address" field - select it and copy it like regular text (ctrl + c).
Step 4
In text documents that do not support formatting, hyperlinks are specified in full, in plain text format. That is, to place such a link on the clipboard, you just need to select it and copy it by pressing the key combination ctrl + c or ctrl + Insert.
