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Menu options


The main menu of the help editor/viewer or built-in text editor contains a File menu, an Edit menu and a character menu. In addition, a Done option appears to the right of the Character menu if the editor is opened from the Edit Object dialog box. By selecting Done you accept any changes made to the help text and return to the Edit Object dialog.

The following tables describe available menu options:

File option Description
New Opens an empty text buffer. Built-in text editor only.
Open Loads the help text of a support file or the contents of a text file into the text buffer.
Save Stores the contents of the text buffer to disk.
Save As Stores the contents of the text buffer to a specified disk file. Built-in text editor only.
Print Sends the contents of the text buffer to the default printer.
Print Setup Enables you to define default printer characteristics.
Exit/Cancel Closes the editor or viewer window.
If the option displays Exit and the text buffer has been modified, you are given a chance to save the text before closing. If a Done option is available from the main menu, this option displays Cancel, and the window is closed without any warning with respect to loss of modified data.

Edit option Description
Undo Cancels the last edit operation.
Cut Copies selected text to the Clipboard and deletes the text from the buffer.
Copy Puts a copy of the selected text in the Clipboard.
Paste Inserts the text in the Clipboard into the text buffer at the current caret position.
Delete Deletes any selected text from the text buffer.
Select All Selects all the text in the buffer.
Find Searches the text buffer for the first occurrence of a specified text string and jumps to and selects any matching text found. This option displays the Windows standard Find dialog box.
Find Next Searches for the next occurrence of the text string previously specified in the Find dialog.
Find & Replace Searches the text buffer for one or all occurrences of a specified text string and replaces any instance found with a specified replacement string. This option displays the Windows standard Replace dialog box.

Character option Description
Word Wrap Toggles wrapping of text at the right margin so that it fits in the window.
Font From the Windows standard Font dialog box you can change the font and text attributes of the text buffer.