The Text Menu
Contents
General properties
Find/Replace...
Find Again
Find Previous
Find First
Find Last
Shift Left
Shift Right
Insert Paragraph
Insert Ruler
Insert-Soft-Hyphen
Insert Non-Brk-Hyphen
Insert Non-Brk-Space
Insert Digit Space
Show/Hide Marks
Make Default Attributes
Make Default Ruler
General properties [top]
The commands in this menu provide tools for searching for and replacing text and inserting special formatting options into the txet.
Find/Replace... [top]
This command is used to find and replace text. It causes a non modal dialog box to pop up.
The 'Find' field contains the text to be searched for. If a stretch of text is highlighted before this dialog is opened this will appear in the 'Find' field. The 'Repl.' field is the text that will be substituted for the text in the 'Find' field if the 'Replace', 'Repl. & Find' or 'Repl. All In Sel.' buttons are clicked. 'Repl. & Find' will also find the next occurance of the 'Find' text. 'Repl. All In Sel.' will replace all occurances of the 'Find' text that are within the highlighted section of text in the window.
Find Again [top]
This command finds the next occurence of a highlighted piece of text in the document.
Find Previous [top]
This command finds the previous occurence of a highlighted piece of text in the document.
Find First [top]
This command finds the first occurence of a highlighted piece of text in the document.
Find Last [top]
This command finds the last occurence of a highlighted piece of text in the document.
Shift Left [top]
This command shifts the highlighted text one tab stop to the left.
Shift Right [top]
This command shifts the highlighted text one tab stop to the right.
Insert Paragraph [top]
Insert Ruler [top]
This command inserts a ruler at the caret position of the text document.
The ruler controls the formatting of the text below the ruler until another ruler is encountered. Tab stops can be added to the ruler by clicking with the mouse in the white region below the grey shaded bar. The tab stop shows up as a black inverted traingle. The position of the tab stop can be changed by dragging it with the mouse. To remove a tab stop drag it all the way to the extreme left edge of the ruler. The justification of the text can be changed by clicking in the fourth, fifth or sixth rectanges in the upper third of the menu. Click in the last rectange in the upper third of the ruler will cause the ruler to force a page break.
Insert-Soft-Hyphen [top]
Insert Non-Brk-Hyphen [top]
This command inserts a hyphen that will not split over a line break.
Insert Non-Brk-Space [top]
This command inserts a space that will not split over a line break. It is useful if you want to underline a stretch of text containg spaces.
Insert Digit Space [top]
This command inserts a space that has the same width as a digit (0..9).
Show/Hide Marks [top]
This command toggles between making special formatting controls visible in the text or making them invisible.
Make Default Attributes [top]
Make Default Ruler [top]