When we are editing a document, Crrl+C and Ctrl+V may be the most frequent key combination we use. In face, we are using the clipboard of our operating system. However, the functions of clipboard are too lacking to meet most needs of us. It's time to find a powerful and multi-functions application that can replace clipboard. Need not to find it here and there! Here I will recommend many popular clipboard extender and management utilities to you. They are: xNeat Clipboard Manager, Clipboard Plus, Clipboard Box, Advanced Clipboard Manager and AgataSoft Clipboard Manager. With these clipboard utilities we can deal with our editing work very well. They are ideal solution for us who usually work with editing job. Following are the detailed introduction of these excellent clipboard utility. Follow me and see which is the best one to suit you.

An handy and very simple to use, xNeat Clipboard Manager captures clipboard items as they are copied to the Windows Clipboard, and we can simply bring up a menu containing all the previously copied items and select the item we want to paste from it using a hot key. For regularly used text we can make it permenat in xNeat Clipboard Manager's menu by right clicking on it, then select Make Sticky, we can also delete any item as well. xNeat Clipboard Manager can also search clipboard text on Google and even make a translation of the text in different languages .It s simple, fast and convenient. Overall, xNeat Clipboard Manager adds functionality to enhance the Windows clipboard features alright.

Just one small tool, Clipboard Plus can automatically grab and save text and images as they are copied to the Windows Clipboard - making them available for saving, reuse, and printing. A tray icon gives quick access to the program and an indicator of whether we are in capture or pause modes; we can open the main display where our clipped items are stored. We can create and save groups of items, and save individual text, text and graphics can be printed. Options include automatic saves, two interface layout styles, icon animation, and sound effects.

Another powerful software, Clipboard Box will drastically increase the power, capability and functioning of our clipboard activity. Now we have a clean tool that will be very helpful to us while using the most regularly used function i.e. copy paste. With simplicity as its key feature this tool is enhanced with the feature to save up to 100 clips instead of one likely in the regular Windows. The tool has a very easy to comprehend interface so that one is quite aware of what and where the copy paste activity is to be done. The tool has the ability to save any text or images, can save and load almost anything, one can also set own options, provides the power to paste items with use of hotkeys, option to resize window and automatic hiding of window as soon as it reaches to the edge of the screen are the other features that make this tool more attractive. Clipboard Box that proves to be a must have for Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers any many more professional best fits on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 and NT.

The Advanced Clipboard Manager is a platform-independent Java-based clipboard management utility. ACM comes with a slim and sleek graphical interface, which can be conveniently placed anywhere on the desktop. It manages all of your recently used copied content and places them in an easy-to-use toolbar. For advance use, this program allows users to execute advanced commands such as search, join, delete, etc.

Another free software is AgataSoft Clipboard Manager, it is a small clipboard manager for Windows. We are able to assign keyboard shortcuts to the clipboard texts that we may use frequently. These can even be short phrases. We could create phrases that have a relation to the text string that`ll be substituted for the key combination. For example "password" assigned to the text string that inserts the password at a specific site would be useful in raising our productivity. There would not be any need to type long strings repeatedly now on. The interface makes it simple to define these key combinations. We get a list of the names (text string) we assign to another string that should be substituted. There is a column in the list which is for displaying any hotkey assigned. AgataSoft Clipboard Manager lets us save the clipboard history of the system. We are able to load and save custom templates text clipboard. We are able to save and load custom clipboard history. This would be very useful if the context changes and we use a different set of names in that context. The interface has tabs as "actions", "clipboard history" and "options". We are able to take a look at all the settings any time. Controls are at the bottom that makes it easy to manage the list of names. If set up properly, this can be a great productivity tool, we really must try it and see for ourselves.

How about these clipboard management utilities above? Which one do you like best? What are you waiting for? Download a favorite clipboard manager for you and see if it can improve your work efficiency obviously now.