Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 66)

46 Pasting Text Writing and Editing
▶ Choose Append Cut from the Cut submenu of the Edit menu (or as you press 4 from the
Clipboard menu on the Statusbar) to remove the current selection and insert it at the end of
whatever is stored in the current Clipboard.
As explained in the section on Drag and Drop, you can simply drag a selection from one location to
another in the current document or across documents. Because this removes your selection from
one place, you must “drop” the selection into another portion of your document.
When you choose Cut from the Edit menu you actually place a copy of that text on the Clipboard.
However, if you just want to delete the text
▶ Choose Delete from the Edit menu to remove a selection
▶ Press x to remove the characters to the left of your insertion point (or the selection)
▶ Press x to remove the characters to the right of the insertion point (if your keyboard has such
a key).
Pasting Text
Paste text
You can paste text at your insertion point or in place of a selection.
1. Cut or copy the text to paste.
2. Put your insertion point where you want to have the text appear.
3. Choose Paste from the Edit menu or from the Clipboard menu on the Statusbar, or, click the
Paste button on the Toolbar.
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As explained in the section on Drag and Drop on page 45, you can simply drag a selection from one
location to another in the current document or to another document. If you press
4 as you drag you
can put a copy of the selection in the new location.
Just as Nisus Writer Express enables you to append text to the Clipboard, you can also swap what
you have in the Clipboard with what you have selected in your document.
▶ Choose Swap Paste from the Paste submenu of the Edit menu (or as you press 4 from the
Clipboard menu on the Statusbar) to swap the current selection with the contents of the
current Clipboard.
Paste text only, without its attributes
You can paste text at your insertion point or in place of a selection and have the text assume the
surrounding attributes, not those already associated with the copied text.
1. Cut or copy the text to paste.
2. Choose Paste Text Only from the Paste submenu of the Edit menu or from the Clipboard
menu on the Statusbar.
Paste attributes only, without their text
You can paste the attributes of text you have copied elsewhere in your document. This causes the
selection to assume those distant attributes without altering the selected text.
1. Select the text with the attributes you want.
2. Choose Copy Character Attributes from the Copy submenu of the Edit menu.
You can apply character attributes using the Dropper on the Toolbar as well. See “Change the
attributes of characters using the “Dropper”” on page 79 for an explanation.
Moving, Deleting, and Replacing Text
See the sections on Drag and Drop, Cutting Text, and Pasting Text on this and the preceding page.
Using the Clipboards
Clipboards temporarily store copied (or cut) text and/or graphics.
You can
• Place a single character or an entire document on the Clipboard
• Edit text you have put on your Clipboard
• Transfer text or graphics from another application into Nisus Writer Express.
Nisus Writer Express offers you as many Clipboards as you like. On these you can store different
materials. You can choose which Clipboard you want to use from the Clipboards submenu at the