User`s guide

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Advanced Topics
Copy & Paste
If you want to copy and paste data between the host and guest operating systems, select Share
Mac clipboard. If the data you copy and paste between Mac OS X and your virtual machine is text
and you want to preserve text formatting, select Preserve text formatting.
Note: This functionality is available only for virtual machines with Parallels Tools installed (p. 196).
If you want to prevent Virtual Machine Configuration from unauthorized changes, click the Lock
icon
at the bottom of the window. The next time someone wants to change the settings in
any pane of Virtual Machine Configuration, an administrator's password will be required.