The Private Clipboards feature provides you 9 private clipboards to copy and paste snippets of source code (private means that their content is not shared with other Visual Basic instances).
MZ-Tools offers the following ways to copy and paste using the private clipboards:
- The Tools | MZ-Tools | Other Utilities | Copy To A Private Clipboard and Tools | MZ-Tools | Other Utilities | Paste From A Private Clipboard menus.
- The MZ-Tools | Copy To A Private Clipboard and MZ-Tools | Paste From A Private Clipboard context menus of a code window.
- The Other Utilities | Copy To A Private Clipboard and Other Utilities | Paste From A Private Clipboard menus on the MZ-Tools toolbar.
- The shortcuts customized in the Options window, Shortcuts tab.
You can copy and paste using a MZ-Tools private clipboard by simply clicking on the clipboard number (1 to 9) on the sub menu that is displayed when you point to Copy To A Private Clipboard or Paste From A Private Clipboard on the MZ-Tools menu or you you can display the Copy/Paste From A Private Clipboard dialog window by clicking on Select... on the sub menu. The latter option allows you to view the entire contents of each of the clipboards:
When you copy a string to a private clipboard, the caption of the menu for that private clipboard shows the first characters of the copied string, so you can identify the desired clipboard when pasting code without showing the previous window. Otherwise, the caption is "(empty)".
The content of the private clipboards is not preserved between sessions. If you want to preserve snippets of code between sessions, use the Code Templates feature instead.
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