What's new in M8 Free Clipboard 23.08
Feb 28, 2016
- Fixes bug in the V23 built in Backup and restore system
New in M8 Free Clipboard 23.07 (Feb 25, 2016)
- Fixes the problem of the main window scrolling unnecessarily when dragging clips toward the top or bottom of the display.
- The initial position of the logon dialog is changed to centre screen from top right of screen where it was often obscured by the preview window.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 23.06 (Feb 25, 2016)
- Fixes bug in the Year Planner Editor where the Enter Key caused it to save and exit.
- The bulk pasting options dialog now has the caption "Bulk Paste Options"
- The Views and Sheets dialog now has the caption "Views & Sheets Control Panel"
New in M8 Free Clipboard 23.05 (Feb 21, 2016)
- Fixes bug in the Year Planner Editor where the Enter Key caused it to save and exit.
- The bulk pasting options dialog now has the caption "Bulk Paste Options"
- The Views and Sheets dialog now has the caption "Views & Sheets Control Panel"
New in M8 Free Clipboard 23.04 (Feb 4, 2016)
- The delete key now deletes selected clips (As per previous versions) instead of the last clip captured.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 23.03 (Jan 25, 2016)
- On multiple monitor setups, the program no longer has to be restarted when monitor relative positions are changed.
- The help menu now includes a "Graphics Problems" item on machines using XP style Dpi. scaling.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 23.02 (Jan 22, 2016)
- Three fixes to the graphics editor:
- On dual monitor setups, the graphics editor control panels can now be dragged correctly on the secondary monitor.
- Where dual monitors are of different sizes, the graphics editor control panels position correctly on either.
- Graphic editor text elements now size correctly on high dpi scaling monitors when merged or saved.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 23.01 (Jan 12, 2016)
- The split clip utility now works for multi-line segments.
- The find and replace utility can now find and replace multi-line text.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 21.10 (Dec 15, 2015)
- Adds the ability to send key strokes to the active application.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 21.05 (Oct 7, 2015)
- Fixes non scrolling bug in the copy multiple clips viewer.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 21.04 (Sep 30, 2015)
- Fixes false activations of the Anti-Virus interferance dialog..
New in M8 Free Clipboard 21.03 (Sep 30, 2015)
- Fixes bug in Copy / Multiple Windows clips to one Spartan Clip which caused long web pages to scroll when copied from.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 21.02 (Sep 20, 2015)
- Fix for compatibility with McAfee
- Also fixes bug in 12.01 which prevented activation by hot key and tray icon.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 21.01 (Sep 20, 2015)
- Fix for compatibility with Kaspersky's "Safe Money" feature.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 21.00 (Sep 18, 2015)
- A major re-write to maximize the advantages of Windows 10 and high resolution monitors
- The grid sizing is now similar to the Windows Scaling ( 100% to 400%).
- Users with more than one monitor can set scaling separately for each monitor.
- Within each scale there are small, medium and large adjustments to the font size.
- New option to have the yellow slots cleared on shutdown.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.31 (Jul 27, 2015)
- Fixes bug that caused the Spartan mouse pointer to flash the busy cursor after copying a large amount of text.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.30 (Jul 27, 2015)
- Now fully compatible with hi resolution, 4k monitors.
- From V11.30 XP style Dpi scaling is no longer supported.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.20 (May 22, 2015)
- Fixes display problems on 4k monitors
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.12 (May 13, 2015)
- Automatic formatting now recognizes separator characters in quotation marks.
- Automatic formatting is canceled if only empty cells are copied.
- When text for a "Copy into" is from MS Excel, the trailing carriage return is automatically removed.
- A Copy Into menu selection is now automatically canceled when a multiple copy menu selection is made.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.11 (May 13, 2015)
- Fixes bug of Esc key not minimizing M8 after a text search.
- Fixes bug in self-splitting clips where a separator character within quotes still caused a split.
- Ctrl+Del and Ctrl+Backspace now delete the next / previous word in the text editor.
- Option to fix display for Hebrew language pack.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.10 (May 13, 2015)
- New - "Copy" menu.
- New - Copy into feature.
- New - Copy multiple Windows clips to one M8 Clip.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.06 (Mar 24, 2015)
- Fixes bug - Copying from multiple cells with "New Line" as the separator now works correctly..
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.05 (Mar 19, 2015)
- Fixes bug - Launching the control panel by clicking both mouse buttons over an empty cell could cause Spartan to minimize.
- Fixes bug - Options (This View) sometimes left greyed out after visiting the hot key or macro views.
- Adds the ability to cut as well as copy from the history and deleted clips sheets.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.04 (Mar 4, 2015)
- Corrects a minor bug in v20.03. (The right click menu could occasionally launch the editor without being clicked)
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.03 (Feb 27, 2015)
- Split and combine clips. - Copy from and paste to multiple cells.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.02 (Feb 18, 2015)
- Where a clip contains both text and a graphic, you now have the choice of which you wish to use.
- There are five additions to the Paste Menu:
- Paste and move to next cell across.
- Paste and move to next cell down
- Paste and move to next line
- Paste and leave a blank line
- Paste and tab
- In addition to the predefined special function buttons, there are now three custom function buttons, one red, one green and one blue. You can allocate any of the items on the paste menu to one or more of the custom function buttons.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.01 (Feb 18, 2015)
- If you minimize the text editor and then try to edit another clip, Spartan restores the clip edit window from the task bar automatically.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 20.00 (Jan 3, 2015)
New in M8 Free Clipboard 19.44 (Dec 16, 2014)
- Bug fixes. Fixes bug causing the current font not to be selected when changing fonts in the text or graphics editor. Fixes bug whereby text clips which had been edited in Spartan were not fully text processed when "Plain Text" was selected in the Paste menu.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 19.43 (Nov 25, 2014)
- Bug fix. Fixes bug causing hot keys using Alt + another key not to work. Also allows function keys 1 to 10 to be used as activation keys overriding their action to change views.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 19.41 (Nov 6, 2014)
- Bug fix. Fixes bug when F11 or F12 was used as activation hot key.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 19.40 (Oct 23, 2014)
- Dedicated Shortcut Clips. Clips which display the Run, Open, Eml or Net buttons can now be set to work as shortcuts without the need to click the special function button. This means that you can create clips which will open files or web pages when using the keyboard only and when using hot key or macro clips. To create a dedicated shortcut clip, add to the end of the text. For Example.....
- m8software.com Will paste m8software.com and display the Net button.
- m8software.com will open the M8 Software web site.
- Minor improvement to Macro Clips. If you have macros abc,, and xabc,, typing the second macro will not trigger the first macro as it could in previous versions.
- This update has a fix for compatibility with the forthcoming Windows 10.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 19.32 (Oct 9, 2014)
- Bug fix. Fixes bug where the "Run" button would not run certain programs with splash screens.
- Also fixes the problem of Chrome opening two tabs when called from a Net button under Windows 8..
New in M8 Free Clipboard 19.31 (Oct 2, 2014)
- Bug fix. Fixes bug where the "Open" button would not open files with file extensions longer than 3 characters.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 19.21 (Sep 10, 2014)
- Bug fix. The Maximum length for a sheet name is 20 characters. In versions 19.10 to 19.20, it was possible to enter a longer name and doing so, corrupted existing sheet names. This can no longer happen.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 19.20 (Sep 10, 2014)
- New feature: Hot key and macro clips can now be used to open web sites, files or folders, start programs or start emails to a given address. All you have to do is save a file path, web site or email address as a hot key or macro clip and M8 will treat it as if you had clicked the Net, Eml, Open or Run button for it.
- If you want a hot key or macro to paste the text of such a clip, just add a space at the end. For Example...
- The macro clip... "m8software.com" will open the M8 website
- The macro clip... "m8software.com " will paste the text "m8software.com "
New in M8 Free Clipboard 19.12 (Aug 8, 2014)
- Minor bug fix.
- If you used the options "Warn when clipboard is full" together with "Do not show in task bar", the clipboard full reminder did not always appear and if you clicked on the system tray icon at this time, Spartan would hang up.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 19.11 (May 8, 2014)
- From V19.11, whenever M8 captures a clip which contains both a text and graphic format, the text is used for the clip name but the graphic is shown in the viewer. If you elect to edit such a clip, you are offered the option of editing either the text or the graphic but not both.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 19.10 (May 8, 2014)
- You can now choose your own colors for highlighting clip names.
- You can now Alt+Tab in and out of the graphics editor.
- Where the clipboard holds both text and graphic formats, the graphic format is now shown in the preview window.
- Fixes the "Search Canceled" dialog appearing twice.
- Fixes bug where giving the same name to two graphic files did not invoke an error message.
- Fixes bug where using rename/highlight corrupted year planner entries created in versions prior to V10
New in M8 Free Clipboard 19.041 (Mar 26, 2014)
- Fixes bug where Rename/Highlight corrupts clips created in versions prior to V19
New in M8 Free Clipboard 17.21 (Jun 10, 2013)
- Fixes Excel problem in V8.20
New in M8 Free Clipboard 17.20 (Jun 10, 2013)
- Fix to copy graphics from IE 10 and AOL Browsers
New in M8 Free Clipboard 17.19 (Jun 10, 2013)
- The new user's intro. screen now links directly to the "Getting started" video
- There are no functional changes to the software
New in M8 Free Clipboard 17.18 (Feb 22, 2013)
- Adds macro clips. Now you can paste clips without displaying Spartan simply by typing an abbreviation for the clip.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 17.17 (Nov 5, 2012)
- In previous versions, users with Setpoint had to use the Setpoint option not to warn when NumLock or CapsLock changed. This is no longer necessary
New in M8 Free Clipboard 17.16 (Aug 24, 2012)
- Adds link to new User Support Forum
- Clip Capture delay added to avoid keyboard repeat problems with Ctrl+C
New in M8 Free Clipboard 17.15 (Aug 13, 2012)
- Fixes problem on Italian keyboards where logon sets would not paste the "." character
New in M8 Free Clipboard 17.14 (Aug 6, 2012)
- Fixes minor bug in the fast access button display.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 17.13 (Jul 27, 2012)
- Adds a routine to report when another program locks the clipboard
New in M8 Free Clipboard 17.12 (Jul 5, 2012)
- Fixes the v17 bug where the logon dialog would not accept two character passwords
New in M8 Free Clipboard 17.11 (Jun 16, 2012)
- Fixes the v8 bug where the "Open" button instead of the Run button appeared over a program file clip
New in M8 Free Clipboard 17.00 (May 9, 2012)
- Adds the new features of Spartan v8
New in M8 Free Clipboard 16.17 (Feb 13, 2012)
- Now compatible with custom text size (DPI) without the need to use XP Style scaling.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 16.16 (Feb 4, 2012)
- Fixes bug where large clips from MS Excel created unreadable files.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 16.15 (Jan 6, 2012)
- Fixes conflict between hot keys and accent characters on non English keyboards.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 16.14 (Dec 5, 2011)
- Installer change only. Installer now adds shortcuts to the all users desktop and start menu.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 16.11 (Nov 12, 2011)
- Fixes conflict with the ^ key on French keyboards
- Adds option to save large graphic clips in Bitmap format
New in M8 Free Clipboard 16.10 (Oct 15, 2011)
- Adds automatic text cleanup and Macro clips
New in M8 Free Clipboard 16.00 (Sep 22, 2011)
- Adds macro clips. Now you can paste clips without displaying Spartan simply by typing an abbreviation for the clip.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 11.07.01 (Jan 25, 2008)
- Adds Graphic and Text Clip Editors.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 11.02 (Oct 26, 2007)
- Adds Graphic and Text Clip Editors.
New in M8 Free Clipboard 10.02 (Nov 27, 2006)
- Adds Graphic and Text Clip Editors
New in M8 Free Clipboard 10.1 (Nov 23, 2006)
- Adds Graphic and Text Clip Editors
New in M8 Free Clipboard 9.51 (Jul 17, 2006)
New in M8 Free Clipboard 9.50.00 (May 25, 2006)
New in M8 Free Clipboard 9.40.00 (May 3, 2006)