Object Outlines While Editing; Selecting Text In A Text Object - Videonics PowerScript PS4000S Instruction Manual

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When you want to edit the text object content or change its attributes, you must first
select the characters you want to change, or insert the text cursor at the proper location.

Selecting Text in a Text Object

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To select text in an existing text object:
PowerScript highlights the selected text by enclosing it in a gray rectangle. (If the page
background color does not provide sufficient contrast, the gray selection rectangle might
be hard to see.) If you didn't select the text you intended to, just repeat the procedure.
PowerScript also automatically moves the text cursor to the point where you released the
mouse button.
If you begin typing at this point, whatever you enter replaces the selected text. To remove
the selected text do any of the following:
Pressing Backspace when no text is selected removes the character that precedes the text
cursor.
To insert new characters in an existing text object:

Object Outlines while Editing

To improve clarity and speed, PowerScript temporarily converts all other objects and
menus on a page to simple outlines when you edit a text object. The objects reappear
when you deselect the text object. You can also make the other objects reappear by right-
clicking.
Text Cursor
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1 Select the text object if it isn't already selected.
2
Place the mouse pointer to the immediate left of the first character you want to select
(inside of the text object's bounding rectangle).
3
Drag right to select the other characters you want to select. (You can also click and drag
from right to left if you want.)
4
Release the mouse button.
Tip
To select all characters in a selected text object, enter Ctrl+A (Select All).
• Press the Backspace key.
• Choose the Clear option from the CLIP menu (Ctrl+Shift+F6).
• Enter Ctrl+Shift+X.
1
Select the text object if it isn't already selected.
2 Click inside the text object at the point where you want to insert new characters. The
text cursor appears at that location.
3
Type the characters you want to add.
Release
Object Outlines while Editing
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