Using
the
Finder
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When the Edit menu
is
pulled down, the following Edit
commands will be displayed:
• Undo
• Cut
• Copy
• Paste
• Clear
•
Select
All
•
Show
Clipboard
In order to illustrate usage
of
the Edit menu commands,
we
will undertake
an
actual exercise in editing. Since
we
are
already familiar with the information window, let's practice by
editing the text portion
of
the information window for the
Memo 4-28 document icon.
Suppose that Memo 4-28's information window appeared
as depicted in figure 3.35. Notice the blinking vertical
bar
in
front
of
"This" in the text window. This
is
known as the
insertion point. The insertion point marks the position where
text will
be
inserted when keyboard entries are made.
Suppose
we
decided to delete the following phrase:
confusion regarding the observance of the
Our
first step
is
to
select the portion
of
the text to
be
deleted. Text
is
selected by positioning the insertion pointer to
the beginning point, pressing the mouse button, and dragging
across the text to the ending word. Once the text
to
be edited
has been selected, the Desktop should resemble
that
shown in
figure 3.36.
If
too much text was initially selected, the text can
be cleared by moving the pointer outside the selected area and
pressing the mouse button.
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