Edit menu commands

The Edit menu offers the following commands:

Undo Reverse the previous editing operation.
Cut Deletes data from the control and moves it to the clipboard.
Copy Copies data from the control to the clipboard.
Paste Pastes data from the clipboard into the control.

 

Undo/Can't Undo command (Edit menu)

Use this command to reverse the last editing action, if possible. The name of the command changes depending on what the last action was: the Undo command changes to Can't Undo on the menu if you cannot reverse your last action.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:CTRL+Z or ALT-BACKSPACE


Cut command (Edit menu)

Use this command to remove the currently selected data from the EDIT control and put it on the clipboard. This command is unavailable if there is no data currently selected.

Cutting data to the clipboard replaces the contents previously stored in the clipboard.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:CTRL+X

Copy command (Edit menu)

Use this command to copy selected data onto the clipboard. This command is unavailable if there is no data currently selected.

Copying data to the clipboard replaces the contents previously stored in the clipboard.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:CTRL+C

Paste command (Edit menu)

Use this command to insert a copy of the clipboard contents at the insertion point. This command is unavailable if the clipboard is empty.

Shortcuts

Toolbar:

Keys:CTRL+V