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Lesson 2: PowerPaste

PowerPaste allows you to paste a series of items rapidly. It's like a semi-automatic firearm that reloads after each shot—ClipMate reloads the clipboard after each paste.

Exercise: Basic PowerPaste​

Using the 5 food items from Lesson 1, with Notepad open:

  1. Select the "Apple" item in ClipMate
  2. Click the PowerPaste button until it shows the up arrow ⬆️
    • This means it will work UP the list
  3. Go to Notepad and paste (Ctrl+V) — you get "Apple"
  4. Paste again — you get "Banana"
  5. Keep pasting until you reach "Egg"

That's PowerPaste!

Direction Matters​

  • Up Arrow ⬆️ — Works from bottom to top of the list
  • Down Arrow ⬇️ — Works from top to bottom

To PowerPaste from Egg to Apple, start with Egg and use the down arrow.

Exercise: Exploding PowerPaste​

Exploding PowerPaste breaks a single clip into fragments based on delimiters.

  1. Copy this line:

    John Doe, 123 Main Street, Anytown, NY, 12345, USA

  2. Enable Edit > Explode Into Fragments (toggles on/off)

  3. Turn on PowerPaste

  4. In Notepad, paste 6 times with Ctrl+V, pressing Tab or Enter after each paste

You should get each field separately:

  • John Doe
  • 123 Main Street
  • Anytown
  • NY
  • 12345
  • USA

How It Works​

ClipMate parses the clip and breaks it into fragments at delimiters (commas, periods, semicolons, colons, tabs, line feeds by default).

Configure Delimiters​

Customize delimiters in Options > Pasting.

Use Case

If you have formatted data with predictable delimiters, Exploding PowerPaste can turn an all-day data entry task into minutes.

For More Information​

See PowerPaste for complete documentation.

Next Lesson​

Lesson 3: Append (Glue) — Combine multiple copies into one clip.