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The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual
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2.4 MOVING AND COPYING WITH TEXT BLOCKS
The following commands allow blocks of text to be marked, then moved, copied or
deleted:
<CTRL+M>
Mark or highlight block. Before a block can be copied, moved or
deleted, it must be marked. Use this command to define the
starting point of your block. Subsequently, as you move the
cursor, the text between the marked beginning and the cursor
position will be inverted. You can also mark the end of a block,
then cursor back to the beginning. Several other block commands
only work once a block has been defined in this way. To un-mark
a highlighted block of text, press <CTRL+ESCAPE>.
<CTRL+C>
Cut block. Use this command once a block has been marked as
outlined above. The marked text will be copied from the main
buffer to the paste buffer, providing the block is not too large. Note
that any text already in the paste buffer will be overwritten. The
text will then be erased from the main buffer, and block mode is
cancelled. You can paste text back with the Paste command.
<CTRL+O>
Copy block. This copies text to the paste buffer exactly like the
Cut option, but the text also remains in the main buffer, still
highlighted.
<DELETE>
Delete block. This deletes a marked block without copying it to the
paste buffer. Because text deleted this way is irretrievable, you
are first asked for confirmation. Note that the block to be deleted
may be of any length, regardless of paste buffer size.
<SHIFT+CTRL+I> Write block to a file. Supply a filename at the prompt and the block
- which may be of any length - will be written to disk. The file will
have the extension "BLK" unless you supply a different one. This
option, along with the merge command, allows for the transfer of
large blocks of text between different files.
<CTRL+I>
Insert, or merge, file. Allows a file to be inserted into the middle of
the text in memory. The filename you type will have the usual text
file extender appended to it unless you supply another. If the file
you attempt to insert exceeds in size the available space, the text
will remain unchanged.
<CTRL+N>
Displays size of file, cursor position, and the number of words and
bytes in the file (or the block if any text is marked)
<CTRL+Y>
Convert block to lowercase
<SHIFT+CTRL+Y> Convert block to uppercase
<CTRL+[>
Un-invert text in block
<CTRL+]>
Invert text in block