Wow...I'm really amazed at the answers. I thought <almost> everyone that worked on the Net used a multi clipboard.

Honestly, when I need to reinstall software, a multi clipboard program is essential and I give it the same priority I do installing email, web browser, FTP, text program, etc.

Here's what it does:

Your normal clipboard lets you copy something, then paste it somewhere else, the store it until you copy something else again, or restart your PC. Once you copy something else, the clipboard is erased.

A multi clipboard lets you keep the past 25-50 things you copy, and doesn't erase every clip each time. It also saves the clipboard if you reboot your PC.

In most paid multi clipboards, you can save and store clips permanently. When you have bought something from me, I have my "after sales" letters stored in a multi clipboard, and I'm just one click away from sending my most common messages.

I also use it to store little snippets of code...Things like CSS styles, SSI tags, html, etc, that I can easily paste wherever I want.

Let's say we were going to sign up for 15 bookmarking accounts at different services. We copy each common element into our multi clipboard, then visit each page and use the clipboard to automatically fill in each bit of info.

For example, you would copy each line below as a single clip, then paste them in the approprate forms:

Kurt Melvin
Kurt
Melvin
www.dombom.com
lvha@aol.com
MyUserName
MyPassword

Now, instead of typing each one every time, I simply copy/paste each one.

Again, I consider a multi clipboard to be essential...Not only for what we do, but for anyone that works on the Net.

We'll be using a multi clip board along with Directory Submitter to create all sorts of various accounts. Directory submitter will fill in the forms about 2/3s of the time. The stuff it misses, we'll use a multi-clipboard to fill in for us.

Here is a free multi clipboard that will do everything you need for this specific task. However, it won't permanently store various clips and you are limited to the last 25 clips you copied:
http://m8software.com/clipboards/freeclip/freeclip.htm

Here's one for $20 that lets you create categories of clips and will store them for you permanently, as well as store your last 25 clips:
http://m8software.com/clipboards/spartan/spartan.htm