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.