How to completely disable Office Clipboard

Question

Hi!

We would like to disable the Office Clipboard for all Users in an Windows AD DS setting.

The office clipboard may capture sensitive data like password, hence we want to disable it.

What we have already tried:

We have set the registry value for AcbControl to 0x80000000 according to this article:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/macro-takes-longer-than-expected-to-execute-many-individual-copy-and-paste-operations-in-excel-2010-and-later-403dc927-b7e7-7096-0cc8-bd8a2b1e685c#articleFooterSupportBridge=communityBridge

However this does not work. The office clipboard is still capturing all copy operations.

The devices use Windows 10 Enterprise 22H2 with up to date Microsoft 365 office apps.

We would appreciate any help!

Answer 1

Press Win + R to open the Run dialog, then type "regedit" and press Enter to open the Windows Registry Editor.

In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office<OfficeVersion>\Common

Replace <OfficeVersion> with the specific version of Office you are using.

In the "Common" folder, right-click on the right pane, and select "New" > "DWORD (32-bit) Value."

Give the new DWORD value a name, for example, "EnableLivePreview" (or the name of the feature you want to disable).

Double-click on the newly created DWORD value and set its value data to "0" to disable the feature. If you ever want to enable the feature, change the value data to "1."

Close the Registry Editor.

You may need to restart your computer or log out and log back in for the changes to take effect.