Clipboard ~ HOW TO HACK

The Clipboard is essential a shelf within Windows that can hold one object at a time. An object can be a letter, word, paragraph and/or graphic. An object can be placed on the Clipboard from any Windows application. That same object can then be placed into any Windows application repeatedly until the contents of the Clipboard are replaced. Operations dealing with the clipboard include:

Cut - Removes the selected object or text and places it on the Clipboard so you can paste it elsewhere.
Copy - Makes a copy of the selected object or text and places it on the Clipboard so you can paste it elsewhere.
Paste - Inserts the object or text that is on the Clipboard. This command is available only if you have cut or copied an object or text.
There is a program called the Clipboard Viewer that allows you to work with the contents of the Clipboard.

Let's look at some of the features of the Clipboard Viewer. Let's start off by looking at each of the menus across the top of the Clipboard Viewer. Before we go to the individual menus, notice something about the menu bar itself. See the underlined letters in each of the menu items (File, Edit, Display, etc.)? These are meaningful. If you hold down the <Alt> key and press these letters, you will select that menu. Obviously you can select each menu with the mouse, but this gives you an alternative way of getting into them. So, you can get into the File menu by pressing <Alt>F.
File Menu

This is the File menu. Notice a couple of things about this menu. First, notice that there are underlined letters on each selection. Although you can select each item with your mouse, you can do it with the keyboard as well. In this case, since you are already in the menu, you don't need the <Alt> key; simply press the underlined letter to select a particular item. Second, notice the "..." at the end of the Open... and Save As... items. This indicates that selecting these items will take you to a dialog box that will allow you to carry out that operation.
Open... - This allows you to bring an existing Clipboard file into the Clipboard Viewer. You'll see the following dialog box when you make this selection:

Save As... - Save As... brings up a dialog box similar to the Open... dialog box above. By default, the Clipboard Viewer will save a new file in the Windows folder. It's easy enough to change folders and save a file anywhere on the system you want though. I would encourage you to create a special place where you save your files rather than putting them in the Windows folder. See Naming a File for some suggestions on how to organize your data.
Exit - This shuts down the Clipboard Viewer.
Edit Menu

There is not a lot of editing you can do with the Clipboard. As a result, this menu is very simple. As was the case with the File menu, you have an underlined letter on each item and a hot key to the right. This works the same as they did before.
Delete - Delete will first ask you if you are sure you want to empty the contents of the Clipboard and will then do it. Very simple.
Display Menu

This menu contains those functions that allow you to display the contents of the Clipboard in several different formats. This menu will change depending on the type of data the Clipboard contains. As a result, it would be difficult for me to cover all the various options. Instead, I'll let you explore this on your own. The menu shown above is for when the Clipboard contains text information.
Help Menu

Most programs in Windows have a Help menu that provides information about using that particular program. The Help menu may not answer all your questions about a program, but I would encourage you to explore what is there before you look elsewhere. Most companies marketing software today are providing more Help and less hardcopy documentation.
Help Topics - The Clipboard Viewer is a very simple program to use as it doesn't contain a lot of bells and whistles. As a result, the Help Topics is not very long. You should be able to explore all of Help Topics in just a few minutes. I would encourage you to do so for two reasons. First, you'll know nearly everything there is to know about the Clipboard Viewer. Second, you'll become familiar with the format of the Help facility Microsoft uses so you'll know what to expect in other Microsoft products.

About Clipboard Viewer - The function of the About for any program is simply to let you know what version of the program you are running. From time to time, the programmer might include some additional information about your system, but don't expect this. Here's what my version of About Clipboard Viewer looks like:

As you can see, this tells me that I'm running Clipboard Viewer for Windows 95 and that it's licensed to me. I get some additional information at the bottom of this window - the amount of memory I have in my system along with the amount of system resources I have free.

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