LeaseyClips.

What is a LeaseyClip.

LeaseyClips are very much like LeaseyTexts except that they are more convenient to use for a quick text transfer as they do not require you to name them. LeaseyClips 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 LeaseyClips to copy the five segments of text and paste them into an email to them in any order you like. LeaseyClips would be used because you are unlikely to want that information in the future.

Up to twelve LeaseyClips 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 LeaseyClip 1 and F12 is associated with LeaseyClip 12. That would make sense wouldn’t it?

In a moment, we will work through an example of how to use LeaseyClips. However in summary, pressing the Leasey Key followed by F1 through to F12 by themselves will copy text to a LeaseyClip. Pressing the Leasey Key then Control+F1 through to Control+F12 will speak the LeaseyClip. Pressing Shift+F1 through to Shift+F12 will paste the LeaseyClip. Finally pressing the Leasey Key then Windows+F1 through to Windows+F12 will amend a LeaseyClip.

All text to be copied to a LeaseyClip 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 LeaseyClips Edit Field.

In our example, we will focus upon using LeaseyClip 1.

1. Launch the Microsoft Word program.
2. Type this line of text: I am very much enjoying using Leasey.
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.
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.
5. This text is now stored as LeaseyClip 1 and you will hear the words “LeaseyClip 1 copied”.
6. Unselect the text by pressing Right arrow.
7. 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 LeaseyClip 1.
8. To verify the text which is associated with LeaseyClip 1, press the Leasey Key followed by Control+F1. You will hear “LeaseyClip 1”, then a short pause, then the text copied to it, which is in this example “I am very much enjoying using Leasey”.
9. Press the Leasey Key followed by Shift+F1 to paste the contents of LeaseyClip 1 into your document. You will hear the words “LeaseyClip 1 pasted”.
10. 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 LeaseyClips with extremely long strings of text associated with them into documents very quickly.
11. Press the Leasey Key followed by Windows+F1. A Dialog Box will appear asking if you would like to delete LeaseyClip 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 LeaseyClip 1 has been cleared. It is not necessary to delete LeaseyClips 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 LeaseyClip 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 LeaseyClip. 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 LeaseyClip.

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 LeaseyClips.

There is another advantage of using LeaseyClips 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 LeaseyClip, 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.

Amending LeaseyClips.

As yet, we have not discussed how you can delete or remove a LeaseyClip. In short, you don't need to. Simply overwriting it will cause the newly copied content to be the new LeaseyClip. However, it is possible to delete the content of LeaseyClips 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 LeaseyClip, Unprotect LeaseyClip and Delete LeaseyClip.

Delete LeaseyClip, the final option, is self-explanatory.

If you were to press Enter on the option for protecting a LeaseyClip, this means that whenever you attempt to copy new content to the LeaseyClip, Leasey will prevent you from doing that. For example:

• Be sure you have some text copied to LeaseyClip 1.
• Press the Leasey Key followed by Windows+F1.
• From the menu which is revealed, choose the first option so as to protect the LeaseyClip. Press Enter to activate it.
• Now go ahead and select some new content and try to copy it to LeaseyClip 1 by pressing the Leasey Key then F1. You will find that the LeaseyClip cannot be overwritten.
• In the future, should you wish to unprotect the LeaseyClip, again press the Leasey Key followed by Windows+F1. This time, choose the second option which is Unprotect LeaseyClip. 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 LeaseyClips. Easy wasn’t it? Have fun with them! It is surprising how useful they can be. Back to Help Index.