The thing about the clipboard has been around since the beginning of Excel. I thought I had read an article about it by Joel Spolsky years ago but all I could f

The thing about the clipboard has been around since the beginning of Excel. I thought I had read an article about it by Joel Spolsky years ago but all I could find now was a quote by Joel answering a question on a forum. A superuser comment quoted Joel as an answer [1]. The archive link for the original discussion is here [2]. [1] https://superuser.com/questions/611854/prevent-excel-from-clearing-copied-data-for-pasting-after-certain-operations-w https://superuser.com/questions/611854/prevent-excel-from-cl... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160725070440/http://discuss.fogcreek.com/newyork/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=3479 https://web.archive.org/web/20160725070440/http://discuss.fo...