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Edit Menu

The Edit menu provides access to the following functions:

Select All Lines

Deselect

You can do the following to select or deselect table lines (rows):

• Select all lines. The Select All Line option is available in the Edit menu. This option selects all lines in the table.
• Deselect all selected lines. The Deselect option is available in the Edit menu. Deselects all selected lines in the table.
• Select a single line, by clicking in the line number field (the field on far left of the line).
• Select a block of lines, by doing one of the following:
  • Clicking the left mouse button and drag the pointer over the numbers of the lines you want to select.
  • Clicking the top row (number field) and then press down the Ctrl+Shift keyboard buttons and click the bottom line (number field) of the block you want to select.
• Select multiple non-contiguous lines, by Ctrl-clicking the line numbers of the lines you want to select.
• Drag-and-drop one or more lines into another table.

  Note: This option is available for some Open System (CA SRM) objects only.

  To drag-and-drop one or more lines into another table:

  1. Select the row or rows you want to drag. You can use any of the selection methods available:

     - To select a single row, click the row or enter the row number in the Show line box and click Enter to go to an invisible row.

     - To select multiple non-contiguous rows, Ctrl-click the line numbers of the lines you want to select.

     - To select contiguous rows, click the left mouse button and drag the pointer over the numbers of the lines you want to select.

     - To select all the rows in a table, choose Select All Lines from the Edit menu.

  2. Without releasing the mouse button, drag the mouse to the right until you see the drag-and-drop button inside the table. (If you released the mouse and you are in the process of dragging a selection of non-continuous rows, hold Ctrl before clicking the mouse again to retain the selection.)
  3. Drag the button to the desired location.

Copy (copy to clipboard)

Copies the highlighted row in a table to the clipboard. You can then paste the data into a word processor or other application. You can select either rows or groups of cells in a table, depending on the method of data selection you defined in the Tools, Options, General page of the Options wizard..

Adjust Column Widths

Allows for you to adjust the column to the minimum allowable width and height that will permit the viewing of all column data.

Observe the following:

• A few objects displayed in a table view may render the first field of data too wide, making the viewing of successive fields impossible. If this occurs, use the Automatic Column Adjustment feature to reduce the field width to facilitate viewing the entire table.
• If you have the Automatic Column Adjust option selected in the Options wizard General page, (to open the Options wizard click Tools, Options in the Main Menu), then the Adjust Column Widths is not displayed in the View Menu nor is the Adjust Column Widths icon displayed in the object toolbar.

Go to Row (or Show Line)

Use the Show Line field in the object toolbar or the Go to Row option in the Edit menu, to go to a particular row in the table.

Enter the number of the row in the Show Line text box, and click Enter.

Find (row)

The Find function allows you to search table column contents for a text pattern through all the rows. You can quickly find a record by name, description, or other attribute that appears in the table.

Observe the following:

• The Find dialog title bar indicates the column it will search.
• If you invoke the Find dialog by right-clicking a column heading and selecting Find in the pop-up menu, it searches only the column you right-clicked.
• If you invoke the Find dialog by selecting Find from the Edit menu, it only searches in the first column. However, if a cell or column heading is selected before you invoke the Find dialog in this manner, only the column of the selected cell is searched.
• The Find function is only available for character- or text-defined columns. Numeric, Date and Time, Hex, and so on columns are not supported.
• Use the Edit menu Locate function for more sophisticated searches.

Locate

Use Locate to position to the next row in the table that satisfies the locate filter.