Pasting and copying

One keystroke puts the item exactly where you need it.

Paste

Select a card in the panel and

press ↩,
double-click the card, or
press ⌘1 to ⌘9 for one of the first nine cards, without selecting it first.

ClipWorX puts the item on the clipboard, closes the panel, switches back to your app and pastes. The pasted item moves to the front of the history.

Direct pasting requires Accessibility access (see Getting started). If Paste directly into the active app is turned off or access is missing, the item is only placed on the clipboard; press ⌘V yourself.

Paste as plain text

Formatted text, for example from web pages, Word or Pages, brings its font, size and color along. If you only want the text:

press ⇧↩ (or ⇧⌘1 … 9), or
choose Paste as Plain Text from the shortcut menu.

To always paste without formatting, turn on Always paste as plain text in Settings › Paste. For files, this variant pastes the file paths as text.

Copy only

To put an item on the clipboard without pasting it, press ⌘C (while the search field is empty) or choose Copy from the shortcut menu. You can then paste it yourself with ⌘V, as often as you like.

Drag and drop

You can drag a card out of the panel into another app: text into a document, images into an email, files into a Finder folder.

The shortcut menu

Shortcut menu of a card — Right-click a card to see all actions for that item.

Command	What it does
Paste	Pastes the item into the active app.
Paste as Plain Text	Pastes without formatting.
Copy	Only puts the item on the clipboard.
Edit…	Text only: opens the text for editing (see below).
Open in Browser	Links only: opens the address in your default browser.
Show in Finder	Files only: reveals the file in the Finder.
Pin to	Pins the item to a pinboard, or creates one with New Pinboard….
Unpin	Removes the item from its pinboard. It stays in the history.
Delete	Removes the item completely.

Editing text

To adjust a saved text before pasting it, for example to fix a typo or extend a snippet, you can edit it right in the panel:

Right-click a text card and choose Edit….
Change the text in the editor. The character count appears in the lower-left corner.
Click Save or press ⌘↩. Click Cancel or press esc to discard your changes.

The editor in the panel — The editor appears over the panel until you save or cancel.

Only items of type Text can be edited. Links, images, files and colors can’t.
If the text comes from a formatted document, its font, colors and other formatting are lost when you edit it. The editor tells you when this applies.
The item keeps its place in the history and on its pinboard.
If the edited text exactly matches another item, ClipWorX merges the two.
With iCloud sync turned on, the change also appears on your other Macs.