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The Copy & Paste window, which you can open from the buon 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 seing 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 buon in the sidebar and turn on Enable Command-A, Command-C, Command-V, and
Command-X. (This option appears in the Seings window only if you are using a Mac.)
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 briey: "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 briey: "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 briey: "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.
Transferring Files Between the Client and a Remote Desktop
With the le transfer feature, you can transfer (upload and download) les between the client and a remote
desktop. File transfer to or from applications is not supported.
The Horizon administrator can congure the ability to allow, disallow, or allow in one direction only, the
transfer of les. The default is upload only.
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