Other Operations

You may be familiar with most items in this topic from your experience with other word processors, so we'll just list them with brief descriptions.

Format Painter. Place the cursor on some text whose format you would like to replicate to some other text. Click the Format Painter – it now "remembers" the chosen format and becomes active (its button is depressed). Select the text you would like to apply your chosen format to: the just-selected text becomes formatted, and the Format Painter gets automatically deactivated.

If you would like the Format Painter to not get deactivated and remain active so that you could format more than one selection, use double-click in place of a single click that you saw in the above instructions to activate the Format Painter.

To manually deactivate the active Format Painter simply click it with the mouse or hit Escape.

Indent/Outdent. These buttons move the left indent of the selected paragraph(s) to the next/previous Tab stop respectively. When working with a Bulleted/Numbered List though, the same commands promote/demote the selected lines to the next/previous B&N Level.

Paragraph Alignment. This is a group of radio buttons that set the alignment of the selected paragraph(s) to Left/Center/Right/Justified respectively.

Undo/Redo. Memos support Undo for most operations. See the keyboard shortcuts below.

Select All. Selects all text in a Memo. Also works in UniGrids to select all Search Results records (you must be in Search Results already).

Clear Styles. Clicking this button simply returns the selected text formatting to default "no particular" formatting.

Insert Date/Insert Time/Insert Date and Time. These buttons will insert what their names suggest in either a Memo or a Text Box in an InfoView form.

Insert Page Break. Inserts a "hard" page break in the Memo. This of course only affects printing.

Memos also have some useful keyboard shortcuts that perform some equally useful operations:

Shift-Enter

Insert soft line breaks. Such breaks start a new line but (in contrast to ordinary paragraph breaks you obtain when you hit Enter) not a new paragraph, so paragraph formatting applies to the whole block of text even though it has such line breaks. This can be particularly useful if using first line indents.

Ctrl-Shift-Delete

Delete from carret until the end of the paragraph.

Ctrl-Up / Ctrl-Down

Scroll the document up or down respectively.