User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
"Text edit mode" on page 613.
Mouse actions for text editing
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
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.
To help you in editing text, display symbols for spaces, paragraph breaks, and tabs. Choose
Layout | Display | Show Text Invisibles. To hide these symbols, choose Layout | Display |
Hide Text Invisibles.
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 629.
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.
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