Size / Length of Midi Clips?

I've used Sonar on and off for years, but just started getting back to it recently....
This is a frustration I keep encountering and 'working around', but I'm wondering if there's a 'proper' way to do this?
 
When I'm working in 'arranger view' (moving clips around, copying / pasting etc.), I tend to use snapping at 1 measure.
If I've created a midi clip where the notes don't start on the first beat of the bar, the clip starts with the first note (not the start of the bar). If I then move/copy the clip with snapping at 1 measure, the notes then end up playing on the wrong beat (which is annoying).
I've worked around this by inserting a short note with minimum velocity at the start of the bar to 'force' the clip to start on the first beat - is this the only way to resolve this? Or is there a better way?? 
 
Thanks!
 
Paul

Thanks - I wasn't sure what you meant by 'slip-edit' - but having looked online I can see that I do this with audio clips but never really thought to use the same technique on midi clips.
I'll give that a try
 
Thanks again for the quick response - much appreciated!

It's a long-standing bug that they keep treating as a feature.   "Slip-edit" for a midi clip ends up meaning, yeah, it's a bug, but we'll put an invisible event at the beginning of the bar for you so our bad programming finds something to catch onto.   I use a simple controller value; anything works.   Go to the place you want the selection to start and insert an event of some sort in the fastest way possible.  
 
It's a workaround, of course.    You'd think the programmers would eventually get the idea to accept the notion that in midi, you want a selection by bars/beats, not by actual events.