Instruction Manual

Deleting and Inserting Lines
Creating a Simple Document
058060 Tandem Computers Incorporated 1–11
4. Another way to delete characters is to press SHIFT CHAR INS , put the
cursor at the end of the phrase you want to delete, and press the
BACKSPACE key. Try it now. Position the cursor after the word
“tracking”—on the “a” in the word “and.” Hold down the SHIFT key
and press CHAR INS . Now press the BACKSPACE key and hold it down
until you have deleted “budget tracking, ”; the text should now look
like this:
The quarterly budgeting meeting has been scheduled for March 15. Please be
prepared with the actual expenses for the last two quarters,
and requests for next quarter. Meet in the
conference room at 8 A.M. Don't be late!
J.
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Deleting and Inserting
Lines
The terminal functions of delete line ( LINE DEL ) and insert line ( LINE INS ) are
both on the same terminal key. LINE DEL is the shifted function; LINE INS is
the unshifted function. Going back to the memo, try deleting and inserting
some lines.
To delete one of the blank lines between the heading and the body of the
memo, follow these steps:
1. Put the cursor anywhere on the line.
2. Press SHIFT , then press LINE DEL .