Edit menu

The Edit menu includes the following commands:

  • Undo: Undoes the last action.
  • Redo: Redoes an undone action.
  • Cut: Cuts the selected content.
  • Copy: Copies the selected content to the clipboard.
  • Paste: Pastes the clipboard contents on the active page.
  • Paste Without Formatting: Pastes the clipboard contents as plain text.
  • Paste In Place: Pastes a duplicated or copied item onto the active page at the same position from which it was originally copied.
  • Paste Special (Windows only): Lets you choose how the object is pasted into your document by using the Microsoft Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) function.
  • Clear/Delete: Deletes the active content.
  • Select All: Selects all content in the active box or text path.
  • Links (Windows only): Lets you update a linked object.
  • Object (Windows only): Lets you work with an embedded or linked object contained in a selected picture box.
  • Insert Object (Windows only): Lets you create an object using a server application or retrieve an existing file.
  • Show Clipboard: Displays the contents of the clipboard.
  • Find/Change: Displays the Find/Change palette, which you can use to find and change text based on content, formatting, or both.
  • Item Find/Change: Displays and hides the Item Find/Change palette.
  • Preferences (Windows only): Lets you modify default values and settings. For more information, see “Preferences.”
  • Style Sheets: Lets you add, edit, and delete style sheet definitions. For more information, see “Working with Style Sheets.”
  • Colors: Lets you add, edit, and delete color definitions. For more information, see “Working with colors.”
  • H&Js: Lets you add, edit, and delete H&J (hyphenation and justification) definitions. H&Js let you control how text breaks. For more information, see “Controlling hyphenation and justification.”
  • Lists: Lets you add, edit, and delete list definitions. The Lists feature is a tool for automatically generating tables of contents and other types of listed content. For more information, see “Working with lists.”
  • Dashes and Stripes: Lets you add, edit, and delete custom line patterns.
  • Hanging Characters: Lets you add, edit, and delete custom hanging character definitions. For more information, see “Working with hanging characters.”
  • Output Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete output style definitions. Output styles let you easily switch between different sets of output options. For more information, see “Working with output styles.”
  • Program Language (multi-language editions only): Lets you change the language of the user interface.
  • Color Setups: Lets you access and modify setups for Source and Output Setups.
  • Grid Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete patterns of non-printing design grids that you can apply to text components. For more information, see “Working with design grids.”
  • Hyperlinks: Lets you add, edit, and delete hyperlinks including URLs, anchors, and page links.
  • Variables (Interactive layouts only): Lets you define variables for interactive items.
  • Interactive menus (Interactive layouts only):Lets you create menus for interactive layouts.
  • Underline Styles: Lets you access and modify underline styles.
  • Menus (Web layout only): Lets you create and manage lists, such as navigation menus, used in Web layouts.
  • Meta Tags (Web layout only): Lets you create, modify and access meta information, such as keywords and descriptions, that provides information about that page for discovery by search engines and other purposes.
  • CSS Font Families (Web layout only): Lets you create font families for cascading style sheets (CSS) and determine what fonts will be used to display a Web page if the original font is not available to the user.
  • Cascading Menus (Web layout only): Lets you create a hierarchical list of items that displays when the end user moves the mouse pointer over an object. This simplifies a Web design by “hiding” menu items until the user moves the mouse pointer over a specific item.
  • Item Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete item definitions that you can apply to QuarkXPress items with the Item Styles palette (Window menu).
Parent topic: Menus

Edit menu