Accessing Clipboard History
Clipboard PlainText PowerTool (CPPT) comes with easy-to-use clipboard history feature - clips appear on the menu of the tool itself.
- The top of the clipboard history contains the current clip on the clipboard.
- Select any previous text clip from menu below
- Clipboard history stack, the youngest most recent clip is the (top) and the oldest is on the (bottom).
The number of clips to appear on the menu is controlled in the Options.
First Steps After install - Is icon is missing?
1) If the icon is missing in the system tray, then expand it to reveal the hidden portion. Clicking on up arrow in Win 10, a triangle in Win 7.
2) Then click and hold on icon to drag down to the system tray to be visible for easy access.
Basic Example - Try it
the end? Tip! You can use keyboard shortcut keys (CTRL-c) to copy available in most applications to the operating systems clipboard.
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| Right-click on icon to reveal menu |
2. Right-click on your mouse while hover over the Clipboard PlainText PowerTool icon located in the Windows system tray, located to the bottom right to list menu of functions.
These functions will be applied to the current text on the clipboard and save it to clipboard history (see Accessing Clipboard History below).
In this simple example, choose Convert to UPPER CASE transform. Notice icon will will change from empty icon to a icon with text on it.
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| Partial menu of Clipboard PlainText PowerTool (CPPT) |
3. Paste (CTRL-v) result, "THE END ?" into you're text application.
4.Done.
Deleting Clipboard History
Double-click on the icon rapidly, this will delete current clip and move the clipboard history up. The current clipboard clip will be empty.
Note: Right-Click on Icon does nothing
Yes, this is by design. A single click on the icon has been disabled, after a one time warning - read it. The was disabled because it interferes with other applications menus.
Icon States
1. Empty Icon - Indicates an empty system clipboard. Also it indicates if a transformation fails, yielding no results and clears clipboard.
2. Full Icon - Indicates text on the system clipboard. CPPT successfully grabbed the system clipboard.
3. Function Icon - Indicates that a transformation/function completed successfully. The transformed text is loaded onto current clip on the system clipboard ready to paste.
4. NEW! Metadata Icon - Indicates that metadata has been put on clipboard history. Click last clipboard history to retrieve text. Used when copying or moving files, for example. Some used to for Launch apps, that may not return text, but has a hover status set.
The system clipboard is empty.
5. NEW! Password Icon - Indicates that password has been put on clipboard history. The text on the clipboard history will be obscured (except 1st 3 letters), but the clicking it will retrieve full value. Just in case of presentations. Use CTRL-ALT-c.
6. NEW! Launch Icon - Indicates when a PowerTool has been launched.
7. Busy Icon - Indicates that a transformation/function is working. Wait until this changes to one of the above icons for a result.