VBMaximizer Tour:

The Clipbook

VBMaximizer supports a second type of code repository, the Clipbook. Unlike the Code Librarian, which can store a large quantity of code, the Clipbook is more suitable for fewer and smaller code snippets - not necessarily whole procedures - that you find yourself using frequently. You can keep all your code snippets in one Clipbook or you can create multiple Clipbook files, and switch among them as needed. Clipbook files are regular text files that use internal delimiters to keep the various code snippets distinct.

While the Clipbook can't compete with the Code Librarian as a full-featured code repository - for one, it lacks code categories, and search capabilities - and it isn't suitable for very large code archives, it does have a unique feature that can be very handy in everyday usage: macro substitution. Clipbook code snippets, in fact, can include placeholders that are expanded when the code is pasted in the code window. VBMaximizer currently supports over 30 different macro commands, that range from current procedure name and type, to current module and project name, system time, and user name.

	Select the code item you want to paste into the current code window
	If you need to modify it, or if you simply want to see what it does, open the VBMaximizer's editor to edit it.
	You can use some of the 30 metacommands that VBMaximizer supports to extend the flexibility and to dinamically build the code snippet
	Finally, paste the code. Note that the metacommands are translated into standard code