Published on Flexigensoft (http://www.flexigensoft.com)

Clipboard extension

Clips frame of AccelClip contains all clips and collections. In the top part (or left, depending on split style) you can see collections tree. Another part of the frame contains list of clips in selected collection. In the bottom of Clips frame a quick search field is situated.

Clip is a fragment of text, graphic or other information.

Collection is a special AccelClip folder, containing clips. All collections are represented as a tree. Root collection is Windows Clipboard. There are some special collections:

Clips Favorites - this is a root folder for your own clips collections
Passwords - for secure passwords and other private information storage
Templates - for storage of documents templates and snippets
Cookies - a collection for short fragments (quotes, notes, ideas, etc.). You can use cookies in macros.
Trash - for deleted clips

You can see all clips from the selected collection in the list below the tree.

Using clips

To paste any clip into some application (for example, into your text editor), start application and place cursor to the destination position. Than, press Ctrl + Shift + ` to activate AccelClip, select a collection and a clip and press Enter. Selected clip will be places into the cursor position in the active application and AccelClip will be minimized.

Extending clipboard

AccelClip extend clipboard capacity. Windows Clipboard collection contains 80 recently used clips, so you can easily paste any of these fragments as it is described above.

Editing clipboard contents

To change clipboard contents (e.g. to change text case), activate AccelClip pressing Ctrl + Shift + ` and mark the first clip of Windows Clipboard collection. With a small delay this clip appear in the viewer at left (on default AccelClip layout). Change text or image in the viewer and click Save on the viewer toolbar. Contents of Windows Clipboard will be changed.

Finding text clips

To find some text clip, type first letters of the text in the Quick search field. When you type, AccelClip will mark first clip, containing text fragment in clips list and in viewer. If you wish to move the the next fragment, hit Enter. To stop search, press Escape.

Creating clips

There are several ways to create clips in AccelClip.

From the clipboard - AccelClip collects all fragments, placed into the clipboard in Windows Clipboard collection. You can move clips to another collections dragging and dropping that, or, using Clip - Copy to collection menu.
From the document - mark text or image in some application (e.g. text editor), drag and drop into the AccelClip
(some applications might don't support drag and drop).
From the document on disk - activate files browser, mark some file to view the content in the viewer, select some fragment and drag-drop into the clips collection.
Creating password clip - to place something into the secure collection, use Add new password wizard (from Clip - Create New menu).
Creating empty clip - select New clip ... from Clip - Create New menu and type containing text in the viewer at left. Importing from text file, using text import wizard.

Exporting clipboard

To export clipboard fragment (like any other clip in AccelClip), mark it and select Clip - Save as... menu. In the save box, type the destination file name and click Ok.


Source URL:
http://www.flexigensoft.com/accelclip/usage-case/clipboard-extension