Designing the Graphical User Interface › Guidelines for Window and Dialog Box Design › Special Actions for Menu Items and Push Buttons › Edit

Edit

The following describes the special actions for user editing.

Cut

Copies the object in selected OLE area or selected data to the clipboard and remove it.

This option is disabled if there is no object in the OLE area or no data is selected.

Copy

Copy the object in the OLE area or selected data to the clipboard.

This option is disabled if there is no object in the OLE area or no data is selected.

Paste

Copy the object from the clipboard into the selected OLE area or copy the data from the clipboard into the selected area.

This option is disabled if the selected OLE area already contains an object, if there is no object or data in the clipboard, or the selected object in the clipboard is not compatible with the OLE area.

Clear

Remove the object or data from the selected area.

This option is disabled if there is no data or object in the selected area.

Undo

Reverse current actions.