Clipboard

StageRace supports copy, cut and paste for both competitors and teams. Therefore the following description applies to the competitors view and the teams view.

Copy

Select the competitors or teams that you want to copy to the clipboard. Then choose Copy from the Edit menu.

Cut

Select the competitors or teams that you want to copy to the clipboard. Then choose Cut from the Edit menu.

Cut competitors or teams will immediately be deleted from the particular list. However, they are not deleted when they are used. Used for competitors means being ranked in any stage. Used for teams means being used by competitors.

Paste

Choose Paste from the Edit menu. The contents on the clipboard is used as competitors or teams, depending on whether the pasting is done in the competitors view or the teams view.

StageRace can not always determine if the clipboard actually consists of the right type (either competitors or teams). Be careful not to past competitors in the teams view and vice versa.

Note that pasting a large amount of competitors or teams can take a while. Your system is not hanging, it is just busy.

Before pasting a confirmation is being asked for.

Competitors or teams with the same start no. or team code will be overwritten when pasting.

The following paragraphs only apply to pasting competitors.

Teams while Pasting Competitors

While pasting competitors the team codes or names that are included will be used to:

• Look up existing teams and link them to the pasted competitors; and
• Create new teams when necessary.

If teams are created in this way, the Team properties dialog window is displayed for every team, to allow you to enter the team details.

However, in the confirmation that is asked for (before pasting, as mentioned above) you can choose to suppress this. StageRace will then use its own propositions for team code and name without asking you.

However, when the latter would result in double team codes being created, StageRace will again ask for the user to change the team code.

Competitors without Start Nos.

Through Paste with start nos. in the Edit menu you can choose to ignore the start numbers that might be included in the competitors information that you are pasting. This way the information is pasted as spare competitors.

If you do not include start nos. in the information that you want to paste, StageRace is likely to automatically detect this. It will then automatically paste your information as spare competitors, no matter what Paste with start nos. is currently set to.

Note that if Paste with start nos. is switched off, the competitor nos. in the competitors view are grayed out, to indicate the setting.

Other Applications

Except for clipboard support within StageRace (i.e. between two different event files) you can also transfer competitors from and to many other programs, such as Office applications like Word, Excel or Access.

To do this, the data has to be ordered in a table and should have the following order:

For quick reference, remember that these orders correspond to those in the Competitor properties and Team properties dialogs.

This is the format as it is used when copying or cutting from StageRace. If you want to paste to StageRace, you should use the same order, but:

• Columns can be omitted at the end;
• Columns can be left empty; and
• The Start nos. column can be omitted entirely as described before, in case spare competitors are involved.

Note that if you want to paste StageRace competitors or teams in Microsoft^® Word, and you do not want to lose the tabular form, you should already make a table in Word and select the appropriate cells before pasting. Otherwise Word will paste the competitors as ordinary text lines while separating their columns with tab characters.