Mouse actions for text editing Copying, pasting, deleting, and moving text selections You can cut and copy a text selection, and then paste the selected text in the same document, in another Canvas document, or to and from a non-Canvas document using the Clipboard. Whether pasted text retains its formatting depends on the operating system and the source of the text. •   Text pasted from the Mac OS Clipboard that originated in another application will be formatted with the current Can- vas text formatting when pasted into a Canvas document, regardless of the formatting applied in the originating appli- cation. •   In Windows, text pasted from another application can be embedded into a Canvas document, using Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) to preserve its formatting. See “Embedded text objects and editions containing text” on page 27.527. If you copy and paste selected text (and not an entire text object) within Canvas, the text retains its character attributes, but it adopts the paragraph formatting of the surrounding text. To delete text 1 Select the text you want to delete. To do this in text Do this with the pointer Select a continuous block of text Drag over the text you want to select Select all text between the insertion point and another location Press the Shift key and click where you want the selection to end. Windows users can use the right mouse button like the Shift key (hold down the right button and click with the left). To deselect all highlighted text Click anywhere in the text object. (Clicking outside the text object creates a new text object at that location or puts another text object into edit mode.) Deselect text between the insertion point and another location in the selection Press Shift and click in the highlighted text Select a word Double-click the word Select a line of text Triple-click the line Tip To help you in editing text, you can display symbols for spaces, paragraph breaks, and indents. Choose Layout > Display > Show Text Invisibles. To hide these symbols, choose Layout > Display > Hide Text Invisi- bles.
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