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Working with Text 8
Using drag-and-drop
The other, quicker method for moving or copying text is the drag-and-drop technique. After you??™ve selected
your text, release the mouse button and move the cursor over the highlighted area. The cursor changes
from an I-beam to an arrow. To move the text, click the selected area with the arrow cursor and drag your
mouse to a new location. The arrow cursor now has a box attached to it, indicating that it is carrying something.
As you move your cursor, a bar (the insertion point) moves with you, indicating where the text will
be positioned. Release the mouse button to drop the text.
You can duplicate text in the same manner by holding down the Ctrl (Option) key as you drag and drop
your selected text. When copying this way, the box attached to the cursor is marked with a plus sign (on
Macintosh computers, the box is the same size as the text selection, and no plus sign appears).
To completely remove text, select it and then choose Edit ??? Clear or press Delete. The only way to recover
deleted text is to use the Undo feature described later in this section.
Inserting text from other text applications
The Paste command can also insert text from another program into Dreamweaver. If you cut or copy text
from a file in any other program??”whether it is a word processor, spreadsheet, or database program??”
Dreamweaver inserts it at the cursor position.
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