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- .TOPIC:
- Contents
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- SDI Notepad is a text editor that you can use to edit small
- text files, such as your CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
- Procedures
- ----------
- Using Help
- Adding the Time and Date to Documents
- Deleting Text
- Finding Text
- Formatting Text
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- Commands
- --------
- File Menu Commands
- Edit Menu Commands
- Search Menu Commands
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- .TOPIC:
- Adding the Time and Date to Documents
-
- To add the time and date to a document:
-
- 1. Open the document.
- 2. Move the insertion point to where you want the time and
- date to appear.
- Or
- Select the text you want the time and date to replace.
- 3. From the Edit menu, choose Time/Date.
-
- See: Edit Menu Commands
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- Deleting Text
-
- Use the BACKSPACE or DEL key, or the Delete command, when
- you want to delete text from the current Notepad document
- but you have text on the Clipboard that you want to keep.
-
- To delete one character at a time:
-
- Press BACKSPACE to delete the character to the left of
- the insertion point.
- Or
- Press DEL to delete the character to the right of the
- insertion point.
-
-
- To delete more than one character
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- 1. Select the text you want to delete.
- 2. Press BACKSPACE or DEL.
- Or
- Choose Delete from the Edit menu.
- To place the text onto the Clipboard, choose Cut from
- the Edit menu.
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- Finding Text
-
- You can start a search for specific text at any point in a
- Notepad document.
-
- To find specific characters or words:
-
- 1. Move the insertion point to where you want the search
- to begin.
- 2. From the Search menu, choose Find.
- 3. Type the characters or words you want to find.
- 4. Choose the Find Next button.
- 5. To find the next occurrence of the text, choose
- Find Next from the Search menu or press F3.
-
- See: Search Menu Commands
-
- .TOPIC:
- Formatting Text
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- To format text, do the following.
-
- To do this
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- End a line Press ENTER.
- Indent a line Press TAB.
- Insert a tab Press TAB.
- Insert a blank line Move the insertion point to the
- beginning or end of a line, and
- then press ENTER.
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- File Menu Commands
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- New
- ---
- Opens a new document.
- When you choose New, you can save changes to the document
- you have been working on.
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- Open
- ----
- Opens a text file.
- When you choose Open, you can save changes to the document
- you have been working on. The file can be an SDI Notepad
- file or any file saved as text-only from another application.
- SDI Notepad cannot open a file larger than 32K.
-
- Save
- ----
- Saves changes to the document you have been working on.
- When you choose Save, the document remains open so you
- can continue working on it.
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- Save As
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- Saves a new or existing document. You can name a new
- document or save an existing document under a new name.
- The original document remains unchanged. When you choose
- Save As, the document remains open so you can continue
- working on it.
-
- Print
- -----
- Prints the document.
-
- Exit
- ----
- Closes the document you have been working on and quits
- SDI Notepad. You can save the file before quitting.
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- Edit Menu Commands
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- Cut
- ---
- Deletes text from a document and places it onto the
- Clipboard, replacing the previous Clipboard contents.
-
- Copy
- ----
- Copies text from a document onto the Clipboard,
- leaving the original intact and replacing the previous
- Clipboard contents.
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- Paste
- -----
- Pastes a copy of the Clipboard contents at the insertion
- point or replaces selected text in a document.
-
- Delete
- ------
- Deletes selected text from a document, but does not place
- the text onto the Clipboard. Use Delete when you want to
- delete text from the current Notepad document but you have
- text on the Clipboard that you want to keep.
-
- See: Deleting Text Finding Text Formatting Text
-
- Select All
- ----------
- Selects all the text in a document at once.
- You can copy the selected text onto the Clipboard, delete
- it, or perform other editing actions.
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- Time/Date
- ---------
- Adds the current time and date to a document.
-
- See: Adding the Time and Date to Documents
-
- Word Wrap
- ---------
- Wraps text in a document.
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- Search Menu Commands
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- Find
- ----
- Searches forward from the insertion point for characters
- or words in a document.
-
- Find Next
- ---------
- Repeats the last search without opening the Find dialog box.
-
- See: Finding Text
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- .TOPIC:
- Using Help
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- Selecting a Help link
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- With a mouse - click on phrases outlined by two triangles.
-
- With the keyboard - Press TAB or Shift-TAB to select a link.
- Press ENTER to jump to that topic.
-
-
- Scrolling the Help window
- -------------------------
- With a mouse - click on the horizontal or vertical scroll bars.
-
- With the keyboard - press the cursor navigation keys.
-
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- Closing the Help window
- -----------------------
- With a mouse - double click on the window's control box.
-
- With the keyboard - press Ctrl-F4.
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- Command Buttons
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- Use a mouse to click a button or press the letter mentioned
- below.
-
- Contents - displays a table of contents for the application's
- Help. Press C to select Contents.
-
- Search - opens a dialog box that lists all available Help
- topics. Select a topic from the list box and press ENTER.
- Press S to select Search.
-
- Back - jumps to the last Help topic viewed.
- Press B to select Back.
-
- History - lists the last 20 Help topics viewed. Jump to any
- of these topics by selecting from the list box and pressing
- ENTER.
- Press T to select History.
-
- Copy - Copies the contents of the current Help topic into
- an edit area. Select the text you want copied to the
- Clipboard and choose Copy. Choosing Copy without selecting
- any text in the edit area copies the entire Help topic to
- the Clipboard.
- Press P to select Copy.
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