Reference Guide

You can give all of the commands on the SELECTION Command Menu by pressing their command keys at the Top Level of the paragraph editor Thus, if no text is currently selected, you can press CTRL—Sfrom Top Level to START a selection. Once you have started a selection, you can press CTRL—Sagain to FINISH it, CTRL—Nto UNDO it, CTRL—Dto DELETE it, or CTRL—Cto COPY it.

Once you’ve started a selection, any flashing cursor movement redefines it. You can move by character, by line, by word, by page, or to the top or bottom. Pressing ESC, or giving any command that changes the text, cancels the selec- tion. In other words, once you’ve started a selection, Think—

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else. You should avoid inserting text or using INSERT, BAGKSPACE, TYPEOVER, or XCHA1NGE while in SELECT mode.

Although the SELECTION Command Menu has no MOVE option, you can move blocks of text around a paragraph with three simple steps:

1.SELECT the text you want to move.

2.Move the flashing cursor to the position to which you want to move the selection and COPY it there.

3.DELETE the original selection.

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