Microsoft Word has a secret clipboard called Spike, and it’s a productivity beast
Most people who use Microsoft Word daily still don’t know that Spike exists, and that’s a shame. It’s not tucked behind a subscription wall or buried in a settings menu nobody opens. It’s right there, bound to a keyboard shortcut, waiting. I stumbled across it while trying to rearrange a lengthy report without endlessly cycling through copy-paste operations, and it has changed the way I think about editing in Word. The Spike is one of those simple Microsoft Word paste tips that can save you from formatting nightmares. It’s a secondary clipboard that accumulates multiple chunks of content and holds them all until you’re ready to drop them exactly where you need them. The Spike is a patient collector It gathers your content until you’re ready to unleash it all at once If you’ve ever had to relocate three or four scattered paragraphs to a new section of a document, you know how tedious that shuffle can get: copy, paste, scroll, copy again, paste again, repeat until you lose track of what’s been moved and …
