Edit Menu Commands

Undo

Undoes your action. If an action cannot be undone, Undo appears dimmed on the Edit menu.

Redo

Re-applies the last action that was undone. If an action cannot be undone, Redo appears dimmed on the Edit menu.

Cut

Deletes selected text from a window and places it onto the Clipboard, replacing the previous Clipboard contents.

Copy

Copies selected text from a window onto the Clipboard, leaving the original intact and replacing the previous Clipboard contents.

Paste

Pastes a copy of the Clipboard contents at the insertion point or replaces selected text in the current window with the Clipboard contents. When pasting to a spreadsheet, if the data on the Clipboard are not tab separated you will be prompted with a dialog where you can specify the character that is used to separate these data values.

Paste Special

Provides some advanced facilities for pasting data or text from the clipboard

Copy Special

Provides some advanced facilities for copying data or text to the clipboard

Column

Provides facilities for basic clipboard functions, such as cut/copy/paste, specifically for spreadsheet columns

Delete

Deletes selected text from a window, but does not place the text onto the Clipboard. Use Delete when you want to delete text from the current window but you have text on the Clipboard that you want to keep. If there is no selection, you will be prompted to clear the entire window.

Select All

Selects all the text in the current window.

Find

Searches for characters or words in the current window. You can match uppercase and lowercase letters and search forward or backward from the insertion point. You can also choose to match whole words only.

Find Next

Repeats the last search without opening the Find dialog box.

Replace

Replaces the search string with new text. Either the next occurrence of the string will be replaced, or all occurrences within the window.

Go To

Moves the cursor to the specified line of the current window, or sets the active cell in a spreadsheet to that specified by row and column number

Go Back

In a spreadsheet, sets the active cell to be the previous cell location.

Bookmark

Opens the bookmark menu to place bookmarks in the current window, to add notes or to jump to previously defined bookmarks. Bookmarks can be located in any text window (including Output) or spreadsheet.

Change Case

Allows you to change the case of a current text selection.

Delete Current Line

Deletes the current line of text from a window or the current row of a spreadsheet.

Repeat Current Line

Duplicates the current line of text from a window or the current row of a spreadsheet.