Bill D -

The clipboard clears itself when you close Word, if that's where you look at it. If there's a "Copy" of significant size when you exit, sometimes it will ask if you want to save the clipboard for use in another program, but it's vague where the cut-off size is. It should usually ask if you Copy and then exit before you Paste somewhere.

To get multiple items in the clipboard, you'd have to copy multiple things after you open Word, although they shouldn't all have to be copied in Word. Whether Word 2000 will add more than the four boxes you saw is not something I can make a good guess about.

My Word 2002 (at the moment) shows a "2 of 24" on the top bar of the clipboard Window, but doesn't show any empty boxes.

It's possible that the Word Help might give more info if you search for clipboard, but there's really no guarantee on that either.

John