Performing common tasks

Using the Edit menu

The Edit menu is available with any screen where you enter or edit text. In general, commands available in the Edit menu apply to the text that you select in an application.

Selecting text in an application

1 Tap the beginning of the text that you want to select. 2 Drag the stylus over the text to highlight it.

Notes

•You can also double tap to select a word, or triple tap to select a line of text.

•You can also drag across the text to select additional words, or drag down to select a group of lines.

Edit menu

 

To display the Edit menu, tap the Menu

icon and select Edit.

 

 

 

 

Undo

Reverses the action of the last edit command. For

 

 

example, if you used Cut to remove text, Undo restores

 

 

the text you removed. Undo also reverses deletions done

 

 

by using backspace.

 

 

 

 

 

Cut

Removes the selected text and stores it temporarily in the

 

 

memory of your CLIÉ handheld. You can paste the text

 

 

you cut into another area of the current application or

 

 

into a different application.

 

 

 

 

Copy

Copies the selected text and stores it temporarily in the

 

 

memory of your CLIÉ handheld. You can paste the text

 

 

that you copy into another area of the current application

 

 

or into a different application.

 

 

 

 

Paste

Inserts the text that you cut or copied at the selected

 

 

point in a record. The text you paste replaces any selected

 

 

text. If you did not previously cut or copy text, Paste does

 

 

nothing.

 

 

 

 

 

Select All

Selects all of the text in the current record or screen. This

 

 

enables you to cut or copy all of the text and paste it

 

 

elsewhere.

 

 

 

 

 

Keyboard

Opens the onscreen keyboard. When you finish with the

 

 

onscreen keyboard, tap Done.

 

 

 

 

Graffiti Help

Opens screens that show all the Graffiti® character strokes.

 

 

Use this command any time you forget a stroke for a

 

 

character.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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