How to End the One Shot Clipboard
Numerous clipboard utilities aid users in stepping beyond the
one shot limitation of operating system clipboards.
Transfer email addresses from one address book to another
Animated Demonstration (85K) of One Shot method.
Animated Demonstration (73K) of method.
Text description of one shot and consecutive paste demonstrations.
How Clipmate, Cliphance, and Clipmaster implement consecutive paste operations.
Assume that you have been doing your email through the email application add on to Microsoft's
Internet Explorer. Assume that you have decided to transfer your email operations into Juno's free
email service. Your IE address book contains email addresses which you want to transfer over.
An example of a clipboard operation which millions of computer users have repeated a trillion times.
Arrange your windows so that both are visible. In IE's window, mark and copy one email name; switch
to Juno's window, paste the email name; switch to IE's window, mark and copy the email
address; switch to Juno's window, paste the email name; switch, switch, switch, switch, (85K).
OR
In IE's window, mark and copy one email name, mark and copy the email address, a dozen
times.
What! You can't do it that way because you have a one shot clipboard? Download a
consecutive paste clipboard utility.
After you have copied all the names and addresses, open up your clipboard utility, select all.
In Juno's window, paste, paste, paste, paste (73K).
Do it the way you conceive of the operation. Copy the items and then paste the items.