Spartan Multi Clipboard Tour of Features
Clip Capture
To capture clips, you don't have to do anything. Spartan just has to be running. You can leave it in the system tray.
Pasting
When you want to paste back clips, restore the program. This is the main window:
The yellow area is the multi-clipboard. All the clips which have been captured appear here and have been given default names. If the clip is text, this is the first few words. If the clip is graphic, this is "Graphic Clip". The multi-clipboard holds 25 clips. When you cut or copy for the 26th time, the first clip is discarded so you always have the last 25. To paste back a clip from the clipboard, just click on its name. It will be pasted back into whichever program you were working in.
As you move the mouse over the clip names, you see a preview in the clip viewer.
The white area is where you store clips that you want to keep permanently. This is one clip group. It holds up to 150 clips and if you fill that there are 19 other groups selectable from the File menu. To move clips from the clipboard to the permanent area, you can either drag them there or use cut/copy/paste by right clicking on them. You can move them singly or you can select multiple clips. To select multiple clips, either, press the left mouse button over an empty slot, then, holding the button down, move the mouse over the clips you want to select, or, if there is no adjacent empty slot, hold down the Ctrl key while you move the mouse over the clips you want to select. In either case, moving the mouse over un selected clips, selects them and moving the mouse back over selected clips, deselects them.
As with the clipboard, moving the mouse over the permanent clips displays a preview in the viewer.
Special Function Buttons
Note that when the mouse is over a clip that contains a phone number and email address like this, the "Eml" and "Dial" buttons appear automatically over the clip name.
To paste the clip, click on its name. To dial the phone number, click "Dial" and to email the contact, click "Eml".
If the clip contains a web address, a "Net" button appears. Click that to visit the web site.
If the clip is a file on your computer, an "Open" button appears. Click that to open the file.
Arranging Clips
Once you have clips in the permanent area, you can arrange them so that they are easy to find.
You can move them by dragging (Dragging with the left mouse button moves the clips - dragging with the right mouse button copies the clips) or you can move them with Cut/Copy/Paste.
You can sort any selection alphabetically as show above, or you can have Spartan maintain the entire group in alphabetic order from the Group menu.
You can change the default names that clips were given at time of capture and highlight clip names in color.
Fast Restore
As well as restoring Spartan by clicking on its icon in the system tray, you can select a function key to restore it. You can also select one or more screen edges and have an activation button appear right under the mouse, whenever you touch that screen edge.
These options are selected from the Options dialog on the Tools menu.
Keyboard Only Pasting
You can paste clips from Spartan using the keyboard only. To do this, first select an activation function key as shown above, then check "Keyboard Pasting Characters" on the View menu.
Now, when you want to paste a clip, type your activation function key. Spartan will appear over your work. Type the character next to the clip you want to paste.
Additional pasting features
Unformatted Text
You can paste only the plain text from any clip by clicking on the Txt button
instead of the clip name.
This feature not only allows you to remove word processor formatting, but it also means that you can copy an entire web page then paste only the text without the graphics.
Bulk Paste
You can bulk paste any number of clips. Just select the clips, right click
and choose one of the bulk paste options.
The first option pastes all the clips to a word processor with a blank line between them. The second option pastes to consecutive cells across a spread sheet and the third option to consecutive cells down a spread sheet.
Form Filling
When filling internet forms, you can use the FF buttons instead of clicking on the clip name.
When you use the FF button, Spartan does three things:
1. It clears any example
text already in the field.
2. It pastes in the clip.
3. It moves the cursor to the next field ready for the next clip.
Clip Editors
Spartan includes editors for both text and graphic clips. To edit a clip, right click on it and click Edit.
This is the graphics editor
And this is the text editor
Note that the text editor has clean up utilities to remove HTML formatting, hard returns, email chevrons Etc.
Windows Clipboard History
As well as the 25 clip multi clipboard, Spartan also maintains a history of the last 150 clips from the Windows Clipboard. If a clip you want to keep has scrolled of the 25 clip clipboard you can retrieve it from "Windows Clipboard History" on the File menu.
Built in Backup
Spartan comes complete with its own backup system. Just select it from the Tools menu.
Editions
Spartan comes in three editions. Standard, Portable and U3.
You can transfer clips between any of the three version using the inbuilt backup and restore.
Views
Floating Strip
When you want to use Spartan purely for batch copy and paste, select "Floating Strip" from the view menu. The clipboard will then remain above your work.
Floating Column
And when you want to fill forms, select "Floating Column".
