Then you can perform stack operations (pop or paste as block) using the hotkeys or the quick paste stack submenu. To set the starting stack marker position AFTER you have copied some clips, bring up the quick paste menu and hold shift while clicking on a specific clip, OR bring up the main clip grid and right click on an item to show the stack submenu, and then mark the clip as the start of the stack. To set (or clear) the starting stack marker position BEFORE you copy any clips, use the custom hotkey (see hotkey options) or bring up the quick paste or tray menu and choose to set the starting stack marker. New clips are automatically added to the stack - you don't have to do anything special to add them - the only thing you have to do is set the starting position of the stack marker. The CHS stack works by keeping track of a 'stack marker' that you can assign at any time, either BEFORE you start copying a collection of new clips, or afterwards.Īt any time you can 'pop' the oldest item in the stack and advance the marker, or paste the entire contents of the stack in one operation. This can be very useful when you have to copy a series of items from one location to another. Re PowerPaste: Check out the 'stack' operations of our local Clipboard Help + Spell.ĬHS now has a stack system that will let you easily copy multiple clips into a stack (queue), and then paste them back out individually (or as a block) in a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) order. But for now, ClipMate meets my needs better than any other program I know. If I could find another program that offered these two features and a responsive developer, I might switch. This way, I can always tell at a glance what will show up if I paste into something I'm writing. As for the ClipBar, it sits on the bottom bar or task bar and shows me the most recent clip without my having to move or click on the mouse. ClipCache has a similar feature, but I found it less reliable than ClipMate's. PowerPaste lets me rapidly paste consecutive clips into a document, a form, a website, etc.

The two features I use a lot and can't seem to live without are PowerPaste and the ClipBar. I was impressed with how much better it was at handling graphics and unicode, but there were two features I missed so much that I went back to using ClipMate, and I have continued to use it happily. When the developer went AWOL, I tried ClipCache.

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