Edit Menu

The Edit menu in the application provides a range of commands for manipulating the text within a document.

Undo

• Shortcut: Ctrl+Z

• Description: Reverts the last action taken in the document, allowing you to step back through your recent changes.

Redo

• Shortcut: Ctrl+Y

• Description: Re-applies the last action that was undone, enabling you to move forward through the history of changes.

Cut

• Shortcut: Ctrl+X

• Description: Removes the selected text from the document and places it on the clipboard, ready to be pasted elsewhere.

Copy

• Shortcut: Ctrl+C

• Description: Copies the selected text to the clipboard without removing it from the document.

Paste

• Shortcut: Ctrl+V

• Description: Inserts the content from the clipboard into the document at the current cursor position.

Paste Plain Text

• Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+Z

• Description: Inserts text from the clipboard without any formatting, ensuring that the pasted text matches the formatting of the destination document.

Convert to Text

• Description: Converts the selected element, which could be a field or some other special element, to plain text.

Expand Subclauses (Future)

• Description: Reveals any hidden subclauses within the document, expanding them to be fully visible for editing or review.

Collapse to One Paragraph (Future)

• Description: Condenses the selected subclauses or sections into a single paragraph summary, hiding the details while keeping the document tidy.

Find

• Shortcut: Ctrl+F

• Description: Opens a search tool to find specific text within the document.

Filter to

• Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+F

• Description: Works just like Find only it automatically checks the 'Filter hits' box in the Find panel, which causes the document to hide any paragraph that does not contain the 'find' text.

Find and Replace

• Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+H

• Description: Opens a tool to search for a specific text and replace it with different text throughout the document. The Find and Replace modal lets you see every change in advance, choose to deselect a specific proposed change, and even to to ask for grammatical changes that might be required by the find and replace changes.