From Microsoft Excel Help Smarter Use of a Mac Creating a Clipping of a file. There may be times when you want to copy a number of portions between documents. You can first create a clipping by selecting a portion of a document and then dragging it to your desktop. The Mac OS will create a special file called a Clipping. You can then drag the clipping to a new place in the same document or save it to be later used in another document.
Clipping can contain text, pictures, movies, sounds, etc.
Clippings can be used over and over. You can do this simply by finding the appropriate program in the My Computer or Explorer program, selecting it, and dragging and dropping it on the Start Menu button. If you want it in a specific place, hover over the Start Menu button for a few seconds and it will open, then move to the next section of the Start Menu, e.g., Programs. Again, hover over the button and it will open. Continue to do this until you find the exact spot, then release the icon and drop it on this location.