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hello, anyone know how to select a word in my PC and copy them and i want to paste them in the virtual machine using Virtual Box additions.any help ?

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i searched in google i didn't find anything !!
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Updated 7-Sep-16 1:18am

It is explained in the VirtualBox User Manual in section 3.3.2 (Chapter�3.�Configuring virtual machines[^]):
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Shared Clipboard

You can select here whether the clipboard of the guest operating system should be shared with that of your host. If you select "Bidirectional", then VirtualBox will always make sure that both clipboards contain the same data. If you select "Host to guest" or "Guest to host", then VirtualBox will only ever copy clipboard data in one direction.

Clipboard sharing requires that the VirtualBox Guest Additions be installed. As a result, this setting has no effect otherwise; see Chapter 4, Guest Additions for details.

The shared clipboard is disabled by default. See Section 13.3.2.3, “Clipboard” for an explanation. This setting can be changed at any time using the "Shared Clipboard" menu item in the "Devices" menu of the virtual machine.

Googling for "virtualbox copy paste" will give you also a lot of results. One is How to Copy and Paste Between a VirtualBox Host Machine and a Guest Machine[^].
 
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thanks for helping on this. I was looking it the same way and found this. thanks.
 
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