Editing Records; Entering Text; Edit Menu - Handspring Treo 90 User Manual

Editing records

After you create a record, you can change, delete, or enter new text at any time. Two screen
features tell you when your handheld is in editing mode:
A blinking cursor
One or more edit lines
Edit line

Entering text

For information on how to enter text using the keyboard on your handheld, the onscreen
keyboard, or the keyboard attached to your computer, see Chapter 2.

Edit menu

The Edit menu is available with any screen where you enter or edit text. In general, commands
available in the Edit menu apply to text that you
To select text in an application:
1. Tap the beginning of the text that you want to select.
2. Drag the stylus over the text to highlight it. You can drag
down
words, or drag
Tip: To select a word, double-tap the word. To select a whole line, triple-tap the line.
The following commands may appear in an Edit menu:
Undo
Cut
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Blinking cursor
to select a group of lines.
Reverses the action of the
Cut to remove text, Undo restores the text you removed. Undo also
reverses deletions done by using backspace.
Removes the selected text and stores it temporarily in the memory of your
handheld. You can paste the text you cut into another area of the current
application or into a different application.
select
(or highlight) in an application.
across
last edit
command. For example, if you used
the text to select additional
Common Tasks