How to insert multiple pics through HTML in a long article? Win-10 clipboard manager makes that easy

Caption: A photo of someone resting their foot on a soccer ball.(Getty Images)

Though HTML is useful to beat the limit of a thousand pictures, the process exhibits some problems.
When a post becomes long, not only we lose the track but also manoeuvring the edit box gets difficult as every time the cursor jumps back to top.

To overcome these issues, I suggest the following steps.

Create a macro and insert the statement at the locations where you intend to have pictures.

Next, open all the photos in multiple incognito windows, in the same sequence you wish to place those in the write-up, and then copy the image addresses of those in a LIFO pattern.
Return to the post & then start the HTML editor. Exercise the Ctrl+F command to discover all the instances of IMAGEURL.

Later, to insert the address of each image, the windows clipboard manager becomes convenient. Activate that using the combination "Win key" +V

Promptly go on replacing each occurrence of that word IMAGEURL by the contents of the clipboard, again in LIFO sequence. Once you redeem all the cases, then close the HTML box.

A screenshot at one such step is as below.

Surprise, all the pictures are instantly in the desired place.

True, there can be confusion while accessing an extended list in the clipboard manager. But then, the counter on the find tab will apprise you how many rows to traverse in the clipboard. If you wanted to include ten images and the count shows two, scroll down by eight and do what it needs.

Note: If you have not yet activated the windows clipboard (Not to be confused with the entity in MS office), reach the “Settings”, “Clipboard” & toggle the switch next to history.

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Hi @C_T ,

This is a very nerdy trick, but also a very useful trick. My windows super clipboard is now turned on. I’m sure it will come in handy frequently.

You may want to spell out Last In First Out in your opening post.

Cheers

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Thanks for the acknowledgement @MortenCopenhagen

Glad to know that you found the clipboard manager useful.

The use of the abbreviation LIFO is purposeful. The ones who are curious about tips and tricks would definitely have awareness of that!

BTW, now the terms FIFO and LIFO have widespread use in Manufacturing also.