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Thanks vanguard, I use a different text editor. I take it that MS has
stripped the crop function off O2007 (i had hoped it was there but
hard to
discover).
The Clipmate is a good idea, and I've found a free alternative
version -
Clipmate seems v expensive for such a tiny program.
I trialed lots of them but never found a clip manager with as many
features and storage as Clipmate. There was a freebie alternative
called ClipMagic but it crashed way too often (3 times per day on
average). ClipMagic also interferred with the underscore key (by
masking it out so you couldn't use it anymore). Another problem
reported by other users of ClipMagic was corruption of the database
which meant those users lots their store clips. They were working on
fixing the database problem when I last trialed ClipMagic back in
February. Having a huge store of clips can be helpful if you need to go
back to one or are clipping several items to then put into a document,
but the real advantage is the ability to create groups or folders of
clips to organize them. For example, you can have a group for Microsoft
KB articles (and subgroups based on product, too), a group for your
common or canned replies, and so on. Another is their Power Paste
feature where you can order the clips in a group and then paste them all
at once, or simply select which direction to go through the group of
clips and paste each one at a time. You can edit the clips and retitle
them to better identify them later. You can define rules to
automatically move new clips into particular groups. There are lots of
features that I haven't yet discovered plus many that I know of but
don't use.
I tried ClipMagic (free) but had to abandon it due to crashes, blocking
the underscore key (not immediately but eventually), and database
corruption. So I stayed with Clipmate which is only $20 (when I bought
it). There is the newer version 7 but I'm quite satisfied with my old
version 6. If I didn't already have ClipMate and if mjtnet fixed the
problems with ClipMagic then I'd be using ClipMagic. I don't remember
if ClipMagic includes screen capturing but if that was missing then
there are free screen capture utilities (which I'd check to see if they
worked with ClipMagic by saving the capture into ClipMagic instead of
into a separate cache of clips just within the screen capture utility).
Of course, this only covers clip managers which happen to have a screen
or window capture function. There are utilities that just do screen
capture, some of which are free, if that's all you want to do. The
screen capture in ClipMate was just added cream to the function that I
wanted: far superior clip managment.
