You have several items in your Clipboard in Microsoft Word. What happens when you close all open Microsoft applications, reopen Word, and launch the Clipboard pane again?

Choose the option that best answers the question:

1. The Clipboard is empty.
2. Only the last item copied to the Clipboard remains.
3. All of the copied items remain in the Clipboard.

When using Microsoft Word, the Clipboard feature allows you to temporarily store and organize items you copy or cut from documents. The Clipboard can hold multiple items, enabling you to access and paste them as needed.

In the context of your question, when you close all open Microsoft applications, any items that were stored in the Clipboard are cleared. Therefore, when you reopen Microsoft Word and launch the Clipboard pane again, you will find that:

The Clipboard is empty.

This is because the Clipboard in Microsoft applications is designed to store data only temporarily. Closing all applications, including Word, clears the Clipboard's contents. This is an important aspect of how Microsoft Word manages resources and data for the sake of performance and memory management.

Thus, the correct multiple-choice option is 1. The Clipboard is empty.