Editing Text

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With the Text editor, you can cut, copy, and paste selected text using menu commands. You can also undo selected editing actions.

The Text editor provides the following editing commands:

All editing commands require a selection in order to work. Some of the commands can make a selection based on the current cursor location. For example, the Delete command removes the character to the right of the cursor if there is no selection.

When you cut text from the file, the text is removed from your file and placed on the Clipboard. When you delete text from the file, the text is removed from your file, and the Clipboard is not used. All Windows applications share the same Clipboard. Commands that use the Clipboard overwrite whatever was previously placed onto the Clipboard by other commands or other Windows applications.

What do you want to do?

Cut, copy, paste, or delete text

Undo an edit action