The M8 multi clipboard captures everything that you cut or copy from any program. The last 30 clips are shown in its clipboard area. As you move the mouse over the clips, you can see them in the viewer. If the clip is text, you see the first several lines and if it is a graphic, you see a thumbnail of it. To paste back a clip, you click on it.

It has two other areas each containing 30 clips. A palette and a library (See screen shot) You drag clips from the clipboard area to the other areas to save them permanently. The palette is for your 30 most used clips. The library shows one group of 30 clips. There are 100 groups in the library and you can have 100 libraries (300,000 clip capacity). To find clips in the library, you can select groups by name or you can browse through them with tape recorder style controls.

Screen and Graphics Capture
M8 captures the entire screen when you press Prt Scr and the active window when you press Alt + Prt Scr. If you use AOL or Internet Explorer, M8 captures any web graphic when you right click on it and click "Copy". One of the features of M8 is that you can paste any graphic you capture directly into an Outlook Express outgoing email. With most other programs, you have to save it as a JPEG and then attach it.

Form Filling
It has a "Form filling" mode: Pre-save clips of name, address, phone no. Etc. and you can fill forms just by right clicking on those clips - It even moves the cursor automatically to the next field after each paste.

Bookmarks
Any clip which is an Internet web address automatically has a "Go To" button which opens a browser window with the page in it, and any clip which is an email address automatically has an "Email" button which starts a new email to the address. Bookmarks saved in M8 are totally browser independant - Capture in Netscape and go to it in IE Explorer.

Program Launch
M8 has four customizable buttons which start your most used programs. Dragging a clip to one of these buttons, starts the program and pastes in the clip. This allows you to edit clips in the program that first created them. It also means that you have an alternative to saving documents as files. Instead of saving a document and reloading it from a file, you can just copy it and paste it back later. When you reload from file, you only have a list of file names to select from. Finding the document as a clip with M8's viewer is much easier.

Bulk Paste
If you collect data for entry into a spreadsheet or data base, you can bulk paste up to 30 clips at a time. M8 will paste each clip with an intervening TAB, ENTER or DOWN ARROW key to send each clip to the next field, record or line.