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Moving and copying
Text, pictures and structures can be moved within a document or from one
document to another.
When you Copy and Paste or Drag and Drop from one EasiWriter
document to another all formatting and structure information is retained.
To move text without retaining formatting information save the selection as
text into the destination document.
Moving with Drag and Drop
Structures, Text and pictures can all be moved using Drag and Drop.
- Select the items you want to copy, then release Select.
- Position the mouse pointer over the selection, press Select and drag
the selected text where you want the selection to go. Do not release Select
yet.
As you drag notice the blue dashed box showing you the size of the area being
dragged. You should also see a caret moving through the text under the box.
This is called the Ghost caret and it shows you exactly where the text
will go when you release the Select.
- Drag until the Ghost caret is where you want to move the selection to then
release Select.
Cancelling
Drag and Drop
You can cancel Drag and Drop by pressing Esc while dragging.
Moving with Cut and Paste
- Select the items you want to move.
- Choose Cut (Ctrl-X) from the Edit menu (or press
Delete). The selection will be removed from the document and a copy will be
placed on the clipboard.
- Click where you want to move the selection to.
- Choose Paste (Ctrl-V) from the Edit menu (or press
Insert).
The contents of the clipboard will be inserted at the caret.
Moving sections with headings
When you paste a complete section into a section that has a heading EasiWriter
splits the original section into two parts - each with a heading. This means
that the paragraph following the new section will become a heading. Creating an
empty paragraph before pasting avoids changing the format of the existing text.
- Select the section you want to move.
- Choose Cut (Ctrl-X) from the Edit menu (or press
Delete). The section will be removed from the document and a copy will be
placed on the clipboard.
- Click at the end of the paragraph you want to move the section to.
- Press Return to create an empty paragraph.
- Choose Paste (Ctrl-V) from the Edit menu (or press
Insert).
- Press Delete or Backspace to delete the empty paragraph.
Copying with Cut and Paste
- Select what you want to copy.
- Choose Copy (Ctrl-C) from the Edit menu. A copy of the
selection will be placed on the clipboard.
- Click where you want to copy the selection to.
- Choose Paste (Ctrl-V) from the Edit menu (or press
Insert).
Copying sections with headings
When you paste a complete section into a section that has a heading EasiWriter
splits the original section into two parts - each with a heading. This means
that the paragraph following the new section will become a heading. Creating an
empty paragraph before pasting avoids changing the format of the existing text.
- Select the section you want to copy.
- Choose Copy from the Edit menu (or press Ctrl-C or
End/Copy). The section will be copied to the clipboard.
- Click at the end of the paragraph you want to copy the section to.
- Press return to create an empty paragraph.
- Choose Paste (Ctrl-V) from the Edit menu (or press
Insert).
- Press Delete to delete the empty paragraph.
Copying with Drag and Drop
- Select the items you want to copy, then release Select.
- Hold down Shift.
- Drag until the Ghost caret is where you want to move the selection to then
release Select.
Moving unformatted text
When you use Cut or Copy and Paste to move text from one
EasiWriter document to another all formatting information is retained.
To discard the formatting information do the following:
- Position the caret where you want the text to be inserted.
- Select the text you want to move.
- Choose Text from the Save menu.
- Click on Selection.
- Drag the Save icon into the destination window.
Moving the caret
The caret can be moved with the mouse and the arrow keys.
with the mouse
- Move the I-beam to where you want the caret.
- Click Select.
with the
Arrow keys
The caret can be moved by a character, word, line, paragraph, or to the
beginning or end of the document.
To move
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by a character
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by a word
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| Shift-®
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by a line
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| ¯
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to start/end of paragraph
| Ctrl-¬
| Ctrl-®
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to start/end of document
| Ctrl-
| Ctrl-¯
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