Instant Clipboard – extend your clipboard with over 400 slots
This application is an extension to the standard Windows clipboard. It has a unique intuitive user 
interface which allows you to copy and paste directly from/to the extended clipboard environment.

Instant Clipboard can manage 20 different workspaces; each workspace can hold 29 copied items. 
Every item in the active workspace is associated with a key on the keyboard. The user can easily 
choose between workspaces.

As an example, a user can have one workspace for word processing and another for Internet chat 
socials. The copied items are saved to disk hence the user will never lose the copied data.

It can handle all common clipboard formats, such as bitmaps, sound, text, html etc.

Install
To install Instant Clipboard simply unzip the zip file to a desired directory. E.g. c:\program files\Instant 
Clipboard.



Uninstall
Simply run the uninstall.bat file, this file will,

1. Stop Instant Clipboard from execution
2. Remove any Instant Clipboard entries from the registry
3. Delete all files but the uninstall.bat file


 
User interface – how to copy and paste

In order to paste in other clipboard application available, the user will have to switch from the working 
application to the clipboard manager choose the wanted clipboard and then paste it. With Instant 
Clipboard’s unique intuitive user interface there is no need to swap between applications. 

To copy, press and hold the Control key, then press any of the 29 storage keys TWICE, release the 
Control key and its done. E.g. CTRL + 1 + 1

To paste, press and hold the Control key and then press any of the 29 storage keys ONCE, release 
the Control key and its done. E.g. CTRL + 1

Its possible to use the mouse to copy and paste and that is even easier than using the keyboard.

To copy, select the item with the mouse, keep the left button down while youpress the storage key 
TWICE, as soon as you release the mouse button the selected data will be copied.

To paste, hold down the left mouse button and press the storage key ONCE, as soon as you release 
the mouse button the data will be pasted.

When you press the storage key a ToolTip will appear and present the user with the current data in 
that slot, this makes it easy for the user to toggle between different storage keys and see what’s in 
them before making a copy or paste. Press the same storage key three times to cancel.

To enter the Instant Clipboard Administrator simply press the Control key and the key left of 1 (US ~).


Hint
Some applications have "hot keys" which will have more priority than the clipboard utility. Avoid this by 
pressing one of the shift keys as well as the normal copy/paste keys. E.g. instead of just pressing
CTRL+1 to paste, press CTRL+SHIFT+1.

The Instant Clipboard Administrator

With the Administrator application the user can: 

The Instant Clipboard Administrator can easily be hidden so it won’t interfere with the user. During this 
hidden mode the administrator will only show itselft as an icon in the status area. To exit the hidden 
mode simply click that icon or use the key combination CTRL + the key left of the 1 key. (US ~)
 
Active Workspace
This combo shows the workspaces the user can choose between. Every workspace can hold 29 
copied items.

List of items
This is a list of all copied items and is used to help the user to remember where he put his copied 
items.

The Key column
The right most column, “Key”, shows which key the item is associated with. E.g. if the user copies an 
item to the key T a T will show up in that column.

Data type
This column displays the data type of the copied item. E.g. if the user copies data from an Internet 
browser it will show up as HTML, if a bitmap was copied, BITMAP will show up. Note that one item can 
hold many different data types.

Location
This shows from where to item was copied, e.g. if the user copies from Internet Explorer this column 
will show “Internet Explorer”.

Caption
This shows the actual data and can only be shown as text. E.g. if the user copies a text from notepad, 
that text will show up in that column.

Remove Item
To remove an item, select the item that you want to remove and click the button “Remove Item”.

Remove all items
This will remove all items in the current workspace.

Hide
This will move the Instant Clipboard Administrator to the status area, and remain there until crtl + § is 
the icon in the status area is pressed.

Setup
Click this button to enter the setup dialog. In there the user will make the configuration for the 
clipboard utility. The options are described next.



Add Workspace
Press this button to add a workspace. Type the name of the workspace and press ok. The new 
workspace will automatically be selected as active.

Remove Workspace
Choose the workspace you want to remove in the “Active workspace” combo then press the “Remove 
workspace” button. This will remove the entire workspace.

Smart space allocator
When the extended clipboards are saved to disk they can take a lot of space. This is often due to 
duplicated data. With the “Smart space allocator” checked, duplicated data will be detected and 
removed. So check this if you want the saved clipboard items to take less space and make the loading 
time smaller.

Show ToolTip during copy/paste
Check this if you want a helper ToolTip to appear when the user copies or pastes, the ToolTip will 
show what's on the current item. E.g. if the user has copied an item to the key T and then wants to 
paste the contents of T, a ToolTip will appear and show the user the content of the T clipboard.

Auto save for safety
This will automatically save the clipboards every time they are copied, so a computer crash will not 
mean any loss of clipboard data.

Save only on shutdown
This will save the copied items when the Instant Clipboard is shutdown.

Don’t save
This will not save any of the copied items to disk.




Final Words
If we get enough response of this first Clipboard version, we will probably make a new version with a 
lot new features such as drag and drop, so don’t hesitate to contact us with your thoughts. Take care.

Jon & Robin / Sureshot
2000-06-09
