Thanks Jenny, You may have solved my problem. I wasn't completely happy with Ditto. I'm not sure the difference between M8 FreeClip and Spartan Lite from the same company. I'm trying out Spartan Lite which one website saw as a new version. Great training videos. I love the ease of accessing permanent clips and temporary ones Cathy
Jenny M Benson wrote: > > On 16/12/2014 02:23, Cathy Pinner wrote: >> >> Another thing you could look at is a clipboard extender. I've used one >> for years and it's one of the things I couldn't live without. It saves >> everything you copy to clipboard so when you want to copy several things >> from one place and then paste them in another, you just do all the >> copying and then go and do all the pasting. >> >> I currently use Ditto - it's free but I may go back to using Clipmate >> which I mostly like better but takes a bit more maintenance. There are >> others. > > > I think I have mentioned here before that I find M8 FreeClip > *invaluable* for use with Legacy. > > FreeClip has 2 columns - one showing temporary clips (when the column is > full adding a new clip causes the oldest one to fall off the bottom) and > the other for permanent clips, which can be named and edited. I use the > temporary column for anything I want to copy and paste into Legacy from > websites/documents/etc. I use the other column for storing the dates of > UK Censuses, frequently repeated (in Sourcing) phrases and "templates" > for all the regular transcriptions into Source Detail Text, such as BMD > Certificates, Parish Registers and so on. > > http://m8software.com/index.htm > > (No commercial connection, just a very satisfied user.) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
