You can click the AceType Lookup button on the main toolbar or select AceType Lookup in the Operation menu to search for a clip using its AceType abbreviation.
A highlighted AceType field appears above the list with clips in the collection. Enter the AceType abbreviation of the clip you want to find. As you enter the abbreviation, the list of clips in the collection is filtered. It will only show clips that have an abbreviation starting with the same characters as the ones you typed. As soon as you activate AceType Lookup, the labels of the clips in the list are prefixed with their abbreviations. Clips that do not have an abbreviation are hidden. If you forgot the exact abbreviation of a clip, you can easily look it up. While typing the abbreviation, you can press Ctrl+Arrow Up or Ctrl+Arrow Down on the keyboard to select one of the clips in the list, without typing in (the remainder of) its abbreviation. If none of the clips have an abbreviation starting with the characters you entered then AceText ignores as many characters at the end of the abbreviation you’re looking up as needed to be able to show at least one clip that starts with the remaining characters.
Press the Enter key on the keyboard to confirm the selection. This hides the AceType Lookup field. The clip you just found remains active.
If you want to look up a clip using its AceType abbreviation and immediately paste it into another application, then press the AceType hotkey on the keyboard while working with the other application. You can configure it in the Hotkeys Preferences. If you like to use the mouse, right-click on the AceText tray icon and select AceType from the menu. This starts the same AceType lookup process. But when you press Enter, the clip is immediately sent to the application that was active when you pressed the hotkey or right-clicked the tray icon.