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Access Methods

Button

Ribbon: Home tab ➤ Clipboard panel ➤ Paste

Menu: Edit ➤ Paste

Toolbar: Standard

Shortcut menu: With no command active, right-click in the drawing area,

and click Clipboard ➤ Paste

Command entry: Ctrl+V

Summary

If the Clipboard contains ASCII text, the text is inserted as a multiline text

(mtext) object using the MTEXT defaults. A spreadsheet is inserted as a table

object.

All other objects, except AutoCAD LT objects, are inserted as embedded or

linked (OLE) objects. You can edit these OLE objects by double-clicking them

in the drawing to open the application in which they were created.

When you copy objects to the Clipboard, information is stored in all available

formats. When you paste the Clipboard contents into a drawing, the format

that retains the most information is used. You can also use Copy and Paste

to transfer objects between drawings.

NOTE If the cursor is in the drawing area, PASTECLIP behaves as described. If the

cursor is at the Command prompt, text from the Clipboard is pasted at the current

prompt.

PASTEORIG

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