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Clips

AccelClip handles all data as a clips. Clip is a fragment of text, graphics or other format data, stored in AccelClip. Clip may be created, moved, copied, saved to a file, viewed, edited, etc.

Collection is a group of clips. There are three kinds of collections: Windows Clipboard, Favorites and Trash.

All collections are managed by Clips manager. In the top part of this frame represented a tree of all available collections, in the second part (clips) - contents of selected one.

You can apply following operations to clips:

Coping a clip into clipboard

To copy any clip, mark it and select Copy from Edit or context menu, or press Ctrl and double click over clip. This clip will be placed into clipboard.

Pasting a fragment

To paste any clip, first mark it and select Direct paste to paste fragment directly into application you work with.

Viewing and editing clips

To view or edit any clip, locate and mark it in the clips collection. If viewer automatic mode is turned off, select View menu, otherwise selected object will be loaded into viewer right after selection. With AccelClip you can view and edit as plain and formatted text as graphics clips.

Moving or coping of a clip to another collection

To move a clip into other position in currently active collection drag one into destination place.
To move a clip into another collection, select one and use Clips - Copy to collection menu. In the shown box you can select destination collection. There is another way - drag clip to a collection label in the collections tree and wait a moment, while collection contents will be displayed. Then, drop clip into appropriate position. To copy a clip use the same way as when moving, but press Ctrl key.

Creating a new clips

You can create new clips with four different ways:

Creating new empty clip. Select Clip New clip menu and in the shown box detalize the type of clip. AccelClip will create a new empty clip and place it before currently selected one. You can type some text or paint an image using clips viewer.
Creating a clip from file on disk. Locate some file of any supported format in Files Browser and view it. Select some fragment and drag/drop to destination collection (or select Copy to collection ... menu).
From Windows Clipboard data. Drag some clip from clipboard collection to your favorites one and drop. Alternative way: select Clips » Copy to collection ... menu and in the shown box select destination collection.
Drag some data from any application (e.g. MS Word, MS Excel or Photoshop) to corresponding collection and drop.

Deleting a clip

To delete a clip, select it and use Delete command of Edit menu. Deleting clip will be placed into Trash collection. If the clip is deleting from Trash, it will be erased permanently.

Exporting clips

To export any clip, mark it and select Export command from Clips menu. In the save dialog you can choose format to save (from list of supported formats).

Printing a clip

AccelClip allows you print clips using registered windows application. Mark some clip and use Print command from Clips menu.

First clip in Windows Clipboard collection

The first clip in Windows Clipboard collection represents a current clipboard contents. When you reorder clips, the contents of clipboard is changing so the first fragment is always placed in the clipboard.

Setting up a clip properties

To change a clip properties, mark one and select Properties command from Clips or context menu. In the shown dialog you can specify clip hot key and caption. Later you can paste clips using hot keys directly to active application.