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How to copy or move documents using virtual clipboard function?

Besides copy, duplicate and move documents features, List Transfer also gives you possibility to use virtual clipboards function to manipulate documents. It provides with Copy, Cut and Paste functions. With its help, you can copy and paste documents from one library to another or copy and paste documents into zip file locates in another library or copy and paste documents as attachments of list item.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

The documents Business Charts_V2_User Guide and Cascaded Lookup_V5_User Guide are copy pasted into current library from another library using virtual clipboard function

The documents Business Charts_V2_User Guide and Cascaded Lookup_V5_User Guide are copy pasted into the zip file in the current library from another library using virtual clipboard function

The attachments Business Charts_V2_User Guide and Cascaded Lookup_V5_User Guide of the list item in the current list are copy pasted from another library using virtual clipboard function

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

List Transfer

The sample data we use for this case

Now, let’s create a list named as Branches from the custom list template in SharePoint site with columns and items as shown below.

Copy or move documents using virtual clipboard function

Download the trial version of List Transfer, and install it to your SharePoint server.
Navigate to the source Library ( Main Documents Library) we prepared above.
Select document(s) which you want to copy/move. Here we selected the two documents as showing below (the Business Charts_V2_User Guide and the Cascaded Lookup_V5_User Guide).
Click FILES tab, then in the Clipboard group, click Copy.
Navigate to the Documents library and click FILES, then click Paste in the Clipboard group.
Then, the two selected documents ( Business Charts_V2_User Guide and Cascaded Lookup_V5_User Guide) in Main Documents Library will be pasted into the Documents library as shown below.
Repeat step 1 to step 4, this time navigate to Documents library. Then click the Edit Menu for the zip file Userguides and select click Paste to Zip.
Then, the two selected documents ( Business Charts_V2_User Guide and Cascaded Lookup_V5_User Guide) in Main Documents Library will be pasted into the zip file Userguides as shown below.
Repeat the step 1 to step 4, this time navigate to the Branches list we created. Then click the Edit Menu for an item (here we selected the edit menu of item Turkish branch) and click Paste as attachment.
Then, select item Turkish branch to view its properties. You can find that the documents we selected (Business Charts_V2_User Guide and Cascaded Lookup_V5_User Guide) in Main Documents Library have been pasted into the item Turkish branch as attachments.