Leasey Clips are very much like Leasey Texts except that they are more convenient to use for a quick text transfer as they do not require you to name them. Leasey Clips are for grabbing segments of text you just want to use on a temporary basis for pasting perhaps into an email message or another document.
For example, if you regularly write reports and you wish to always reproduce the same text time after time, use a LeaseyText to store it, give it a name so you can easily recall it in the future, and save it. It will always be there for you.
If, on the other hand, you are reading a web page on which you can see comparisons of five hotels you and a friend may wish to visit, use Leasey Clips to copy the five segments of text and paste them into an email to them in any order you like. Leasey Clips would be used because you are unlikely to want that information in the future.
Up to twelve Leasey Clips are available to you and the keystrokes for creating, pasting, reviewing or amending them are accessed using the function keys on the computer keyboard. The Function Keys are of course located on the top row of the keyboard. These keys are either pressed by themselves or in conjunction with other keyboard modifier keys: The Control, Shift or Windows Keys.
F1 is associated with Leasey Clip 1 and F12 is associated with Leasey Clip 12. That would make sense wouldn't it?
In a moment, we will work through an example of how to use Leasey Clips. However in summary, pressing the Leasey Key followed by F1 through to F12 by themselves will copy text to a Leasey Clip. Pressing the Leasey Key then Control+F1 through to Control+F12 will speak the Leasey Clip. Pressing Shift+F1 through to Shift+F12 will paste the Leasey Clip. Finally pressing the Leasey Key then Windows+F1 through to Windows+F12 will amend a Leasey Clip.
All text to be copied to a Leasey Clip should ideally be selected first. If no text is selected, an Edit Field may be displayed into which you can type or paste any text you like. Please keep reading to learn more about the Leasey Clips Edit Field.
In our example, we will focus upon using Leasey Clip 1.
Step 1. Launch the Microsoft Word or Leasey Word program.
Step 2. Type this line of text:
I am very much enjoying using Leasey.
Step 3. Press the Home Key to move to the beginning of the line of text you have just typed. Because it is only a single line of text, we can simply press Shift+End to select it.
Step 4. Press the Leasey Key followed by F1. An Edit Field will appear containing the text of the line you selected. If you wish to edit it, please go ahead and do so now, then press enter.
This text is now stored as Leasey Clip 1 and you will hear the words 'Leasey Clip 1 copied'.
Step 5. Unselect the text by pressing Right Arrow.
Step 6. Press Enter twice to create a blank line between the text you have typed and that which you are about to paste into the document from Leasey Clip 1.
Step 7. To verify the text which is associated with Leasey Clip 1, press the Leasey Key followed by Control+F1. You will hear 'Leasey Clip 1', then a short pause, then the text copied to it, which is in this example 'I am very much enjoying using Leasey'.
Step 8. Press the Leasey Key followed by Shift+F1 to paste the contents of Leasey Clip 1 into your document. You will hear the words 'Leasey Clip 1 pasted'.
If you review the text in your document, you will observe that there are now two instances of the sentence. Leasey is capable of pasting Leasey Clips with extremely long strings of text associated with them into documents very quickly.
Step 9. Press the Leasey Key followed by Windows+F1. A Dialog Box will appear asking if you would like to delete Leasey Clip 1. Select the 'Yes' Button by pressing the letter 'Y', or by pressing Tab until it is reached, followed by the Space Bar. You will be advised that Leasey Clip 1 has been cleared. It is not necessary to delete Leasey Clips before you use them again. What makes them convenient and easy to use is that they can just be overwritten at any point, but the functionality for deleting the contents from a Leasey Clip is available should you wish to use it.
If you press Alt+Control+Windows+Semicolon repeatedly, this will change whether or not an Edit Field is brought into view when you attempt to copy text to a Leasey Clip. If you enable this option, an Edit Field will appear containing the text you are about to copy. This is useful in order that you can review it, or even change it, prior to pressing Enter so as to store the text as a Leasey Clip.
If this option is enabled, and you have not selected text ready for copying, Leasey will display in the Edit Field the text which had previously been stored, if it exists.
To improve productivity however, you may wish to disable this feature. There is a strong possibility that, if you select text ready for copying, you know you have done so and you do not need to review it. In this circumstance, you can quickly copy the text and move onto the next job you have to do, such as copying text to other Leasey Clips.
There is another advantage of using Leasey Clips in conjunction with this second mode of operation, where the Edit Field is not displayed.
If text has not been selected prior to attempting to copy to a Leasey Clip, the data on the Windows Clipboard will be used instead. If no text exists on the Clipboard, and you have not selected any text, you are advised of this.
As yet, we have not discussed how you can delete or remove a Leasey Clip. In short, you don't need to. Simply overwriting it will cause the newly copied content to be the new Leasey Clip. However, it is possible to delete the content of Leasey Clips by using the Amend keystrokes, Leasey Key then Windows+F1 through to Windows+F12.
When you press one of these keystrokes, you will be presented with a list of three choices: Protect Leasey Clip, Unprotect Leasey Clip and Delete Leasey Clip.
Delete Leasey Clip, the final option, is self-explanatory.
If you were to press Enter on the option for protecting a Leasey Clip, this means that whenever you attempt to copy new content to the Leasey Clip, Leasey will prevent you from doing that. For example:
Be sure you have some text copied to Leasey Clip 1.
Press the Leasey Key followed by Windows+F1.
From the menu which is revealed, choose the first option so as to protect the Leasey Clip. Press Enter to activate it.
Now go ahead and select some new content and try to copy it to Leasey Clip 1 by pressing the Leasey Key then F1. You will find that the Leasey Clip cannot be overwritten.
In the future, should you wish to unprotect the Leasey Clip, again press the Leasey Key followed by Windows+F1. This time, choose the second option which is Unprotect Leasey Clip. Press Enter to unprotect it and, once again, you are able to place new content onto it.
You now know everything there is to know about Leasey Clips. Easy wasn't it? Have fun with them! It is surprising how useful they can be.
Copy Text to Leasey Clip 1 through to 12, Leasey Key then F1 Through to F12.
Speak Leasey Clip 1 Through to 12, Leasey Key then Control+F1 Through to Control+F12.
Paste Leasey Clip 1 Through to 12, Leasey Key then Shift+F1 Through to Shift+F12.
Delete, protect or unprotect Leasey Clip 1 Through to 12, Leasey Key then Windows+F1 Through to Windows+F12.
Change whether an Edit Field is brought into view when text is being copied to a Leasey Clip, Alt+Control+Windows+Semicolon.