Clipboard

Clipboard

The Clipboard is the special Windows container into which any application is able to place information (text, pictures etc) as well as retrieve the information from it.

The clipboard can be used as a temporary storage for transferring a portion of some document to another place of the same document or to another document.
For example, if you have two open documents, you could activate the first document, and place the first paragraph of this document onto the clipboard. Then you activate another document and insert the contents of the clipboard to this document.

With Atlantis you can perform the following operations related to the clipboard.

  1. Copying.
    This operation allows to place a copy of the selected text onto the clipboard.
    The selected fragment is copied to the clipboard accompanied with all its formatting.
    To copy the desired fragment of the document to the clipboard, simply select this fragment, and either click the button on the toolbar of Atlantis or press the Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Ins keys. Or choose the Edit | Copy command.

  2. Pasting.
    This operation inserts a copy of the current clipboard contents to the active document.
    Atlantis supports two types of pasting.

    1. Pasting formatted text, or simply Pasting.
      This operation pastes the contents of the clipboard with all the formatting accompanied (if any).
      For example, if you have placed the underlined text onto the clipboard, this operation will insert the underlined text to your document too.

      To paste the contents of the clipboard as formatted text, either click the button on the toolbar of Atlantis or press the Ctrl+V or Shift+Ins keys. Or choose the Edit | Paste command.

    2. Pasting without formatting, or Pasting as plain text.
      This operation retrieves only pure plain text from the clipboard, and inserts this plain text to the document. Atlantis automatically formats the text being pasted with the format of the character situated immediately before the cursor.

      To paste the contents of the clipboard as plain text, either click the button on the toolbar of Atlantis or press the Ctrl+Alt+Ins keys. Or choose the Edit | Paste As Environment command.

    The example. Let's imagine that our document contains only two paragraphs. The first paragraph is formatted with the Arial typeface, bold, and blue color.
    Another paragraph is formatted with the Courier New typeface.
    The word magicians from the first paragraph is selected.

    Now we copy this selected word to the clipboard, then paste the contents of the clipboard immediately after the They word from the second paragraph using the first pasting operation (Pasting formatted text).

    As you might see, the inserted word retains its formatting (it is still formatted with the Arial font face, is bold and blue).

    Let's back to the original state of our document.

    Then paste the contents of the clipboard immediately after the They word from the second paragraph using the second pasting operation (Pasting as plain text).

    As you might see, now the inserted word has the same formatting as the preceding word They.

  3. Cutting.
    This operation places a copy of the selected text onto the clipboard, and then deletes the selected fragment of the document (cuts selection to the clipboard).
    The selected fragment is cut to the clipboard accompanied with all its formatting.
    To cut the desired fragment of the document to the clipboard, simply select this fragment, and either click the button on the toolbar of Atlantis or press the Ctrl+X or Shift+Del keys. Or choose the Edit | Cut command.

 

You can also copy a column block to the clipboard.

See also...

Clippy Bank