Clipboards: When you interact with CIPS software, you have access to two different clipboards unique to the Java simulators:

• CIPS Java Clipboard: Shared by all CIPS simulators, Portfolio Idea Container, and the Graphics Applet during any single session of Internet Explorer. This clipboard is used by the graphics functions Paste and Snapshot, and the Image Palette.
• Editing Clipboard: Each simulator has its own, unique Editing Clipboard. Only simulator edit functions, including copy, cut, and paste (not the same as the graphic Paste function), use this clipboard. You may access these editing functions through the keyboard or the standard menu.

In addition, you have access to your computer's System Clipboard, which is used by most of the applications you run. These include programs you will probably use in conjunction with the CIPS pedagogy, such as Microsoft Word and screen snapshot programs like HyperSnap (for the PC) and SnapzPro (for the Mac).

Remember: The Java programs do not have access to the System Clipboard. You cannot paste text directly from Word into a text box in a CIPS simulator. Nor can you paste a screen shot using Hypersnap and paste the image into a simulator. Likewise, you cannot use the Snapshot tool to take text or images from the Java simulators and import them into Microsoft Word. The System Clipboard might as well be in a different universe as far as the CIPS Java programs are concerned.