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title: "Clipboard and files"
description: "Clipboard and file extensions handle what people paste or drop into the editor: files, and content copied from Microsoft Word, Excel, and Google Docs."
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# Clipboard and files

Clipboard and file extensions handle what people paste or drop into the editor: files, and content copied from Microsoft Word, Excel, and Google Docs.

## When you use them

- **Images and other files.** File handler calls your code when someone drops or pastes a file, for example to insert it as an image.
- **Content from office apps.** Paste handler cleans up content pasted from Microsoft Excel, Word, and Google Docs, and removes formatting artifacts of the source.

## How they work

- **File handler leaves the upload to you.** Its `onPaste` and `onDrop` callbacks receive the files. It doesn't display or upload them; you insert a node and upload the file to your server. `allowedMimeTypes` limits which files it accepts.
- **Paste handler needs no configuration.** Add it to the editor and it transforms pasted HTML. If a transformation fails, the original pasted HTML is used.
- **Paste handler requires the Team plan.** It comes from the `@tiptap-pro/extension-paste-handler` package.
- **You add them yourself.** Neither is part of the [StarterKit](https://tiptap.dev/docs/editor/extensions/functionality/starterkit.md).

## Related

- [Media and embeds](https://tiptap.dev/docs/editor/extensions/media.md) has the Image node that shows uploaded images.
- [Writing helpers](https://tiptap.dev/docs/editor/extensions/writing-helpers.md) support people while they write.