c="taskPane.png" width="218" height="255" alt="Clipboard TaskPane" /><p class="caption">The Office XP Clipboard TaskPane</p><p>
The highlighted item can either be selected directly, or you can choose the drop-down 
to pick some additional options.  Presumably the main rationale for this is to make it 
directly obvious that there is more than one thing you can do with the hot item,
rather than assuming that the user will right-click to find out.  It's also a way
of allowing you to perform one of many actions