HP 95LX - 3. Sharing Information Between Applications; Using the Clipboard

3. SHARING INFORMATION
~ BETWEEN APPLICATIONS
The HP 95LX gives you a limited ability to move data between your built-in
applications: 1) Use the Clipboard to cut and paste information;
2) Saveinformation from one application in a file format that can
be understood by another application.
Using the Clipboard
The Clipboard is a reserved “holding” (storage) area that you can sometimes use
to transfer data from one place to another. Data transferred between applications
via the Clipboard can end up only as text (a label in 1-2-3 terminology)—even if it
began as a number in the Calculator or an appointment in the Appointment Book.
Using the Clipboard is usually quite intuitive. Use the following procedure:
1. Select (“markout”) the text. Sometimes the selection is simply the current
record or field. Sometimes you must select the fields or range of data you want
copied by “tagging” or “marking” it using function keys. In 1-2-3, you select the
range destined for the Clipboard much like you select any range of data.
2. Cutorcopyit. Cutting text deletes it from the current file at the same time that
it stores a copy in the Clipboard file. Copying text does not disturb the original
text in the file, but merely makes a second copy for the Clipboard. Either
cutting or copying will overwrite anything that was previously stored in the
Clipboard.
3. Move to the new place that you wish to insert the Clipboard text—either in a
new file or in a different part of the old file.
4. Paste the text.
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