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The Copy & Paste window, which you can open from the buon at the top of the HTML Access sidebar, is
required only for synchronizing the Clipboard on your local system with the Clipboard in the remote
machine.
The text in the Copy & Paste window displays one of the following messages to indicate in which direction
the user can copy and paste content.
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Use this panel to copy & paste content between your local client and remote
desktop/application.
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Use the panel to copy & paste content from your local client to remote desktop/application.
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Use the panel to copy & paste content from your remote desktop/application to local client.
Prerequisites
If you are using a Mac, verify that you have enabled the seing for mapping the Command key to the
Windows Ctrl key when using the key combinations to select, copy, and paste text. Click the Open 
Window toolbar buon in the sidebar and turn on Enable Command-A, Command-C, Command-V, and
Command-X. (This option appears in the Seings window only if you are using a Mac.)
The View administrator must either leave the default policy in eect, which allows users to copy from client
systems and paste into their remote desktops and applications, or else the administrator must congure
another policy that allows copying and pasting. For more information, see “HTML Access Group Policy
Seings,” on page 26.
Procedure
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To copy text from your client system to the remote desktop or application:
a Copy the text in local client application.
b In your browser, click the HTML Access sidebar tab to open the sidebar, and click Copy & Paste at
the top of the sidebar.
The Copy & Paste window appears. If previously copied text already appears in the window, that
text will be replaced when you paste in the newly copied text.
c Press Ctrl+V (or Command-V on Macs) to paste the text into the Copy & Paste window.
The following message appears briey: "Remote Clipboard Synced."
d Click in the remote application where you want to past the text and press Ctrl+V.
The text is pasted into the remote application.
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To copy text from your remote desktop or application to your client system:
a Copy the text in your remote application.
b In your browser, click the HTML Access sidebar tab to open the sidebar, and click Copy & Paste at
the top of the sidebar.
The Copy & Paste window appears with the text already pasted in it. The following message
appears briey: "Remote Clipboard Synced."
c Click in the Copy & Paste window and press Ctrl+C (or Command-C on Macs) to copy again.
The text will not be selected when you do this action, and you cannot select the text. The following
message appears briey: "Copied from Clipboard Panel."
d On your client system, click where you want to paste the text and press Ctrl+V.
The text is pasted into the application on your client system.
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