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| Use multiple Clipboard items outside of Office |
| The Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit includes a tool that gives you some of the same |
| features as the new Office Clipboard. Specifically, the ClipTray tool lets you store and use |
| multiple blocks of text across applications. This is a handy feature when you're writing program |
| code, developing Web content, or even working in an application such as WordPad, Notepad, or |
| other text editor that doesn't provide a multiobject Clipboard. |
| ClipTray resides in the system tray. When you double-click the ClipTray icon, the program opens a |
| simple dialog box in which you enter a name for the text and the text itself. You can copy text to |
| the Clipboard from any application and paste it into the ClipTray to create the entry. Simply |
| repeat the steps to add other text items. (ClipTray defaults to 20 items, but you can create up to 99 |
| When you're ready to use an item, right-click the ClipTray icon and select the item by name from |
| the context menu. This places the item in the Windows Clipboard; then, paste it into your |
| The ability to create up to 99 entries wouldn't be very useful if you didn't have a way to save them, |
| and ClipTray gives you that ability. You can save a set of items to a text file for use at any time. |
| When you need its entries, just open the file in ClipTray and start pasting. |
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