Block Select Commands and Windows
In Quick Start, you learned how to select a block of text and use block com-mands to manipulate text in one file. Once you learn how to move between open windows, you can easily perform any of the block commands on the Edit menu (Move-Cut, Insert-Paste, and Copy, for example) on multiple files.
In this lesson, you'll learn how to use a new Window command (Window / Next) with the Block Select and Edit commands you learned in Quick Start.
In this way, you'll learn how to select a block of text in one open window and copy it into a file in the other open window.
Practice
Follow the instructions below to switch back to the top window, select text from the file displayed in that window (CABINET.SPR), and copy the text to the Clipboard. Then, switch back to the window with the new file (SMITH.SPR) and paste the text from the Clipboard into the new file.
Copying Text from One Window to Another
1. Return to the CABINET.SPR window by choosing Window/Next:
Press: F10 WN (or use the shortcut Shift-F6)
2. The section you need to copy is CABINET STYLE. Instead of paging through the file, you can quickly search for these words with the Find command:
Press: F7 or etr/-OF Sprint prompts Forward search:
1rY1Pe: CABINET STYLE Press: Enter
Sprint's search starts at the current cursor position; it highlights the words CABINET STYLE when it finds them.
3. Select the text from the start of the words CABINET STYLE to the bottom of the file:
Press: Home to move the cursor to the start of the line Press: F3 (the shortcut for 1rurn Select Mode On) Press: Ctrl-PgDn to move the cursor to the end of the file
Sprint highlights everything from the beginning of the words CABINET STYLE to the end of the file. That block of text can now be deleted, moved, or copied.
4. Copy the text into temporary storage (the Clipboard):
Press: F4 (the shortcut for Edit/Copy)
5. Switch to the window containing the SMITH.SPR file (which is empty except for a ruler line) by choosing Window/Next:
Press: F10 WN (or use the shortcut Shift-F6) 6. Paste the text from the Clipboard into the new file:
Press: F6 (the shortcut for Edit/Insert-Paste)
The block you selected is copied from CABINET.SPR and pasted into SMITH.SPR.
You now have most of the text you want; however, you still need some text from the proposal done in Quick Start (PROPOSAL.SPR). So the next thing to do is select a portion of the PROPOSAL.SPR file and copy it into your new work order, SMITH.SPR.
1. Return to the other window (the one containing CABINET.SPR):
Press: Shift-F6
2. Open the file PROPOSAL.SPR, which is the file you modified in the Quick Start tutorial:
Press: Ctrl-F3 Sprint prompts File to open:
Type: PROPOSAL (Sprint supplies the default .SPR extension) Press: Enter
Note: When you open a new file in a window, the file it replaces in the window remains open and easily accessible, even though it's no longer visible. You can always check which files are open by choosing File/
Pick from List (the shortcut is Ctrl-F9); Sprint will display a list of every open file. To display any file in the list in your active window, choose it with the arrow keys and press Enter. (If you prefer to switch between open files without viewing a list, just press Ctrl-F6 and Sprint will move from file to file in the same order as the Pick from List command displays them.)
3. Place the cursor at the beginning of the TASK heading and select the text down to but not including the COST ESTIMATE heading:
Press: F3 to turn Select mode on
Press: F7(the shortcut for Edit/Search/Find) Sprint prompts Forward search:
1r)1?e: COST ESTIMATE Press: Enter
Sprint finds COST ESTIMATE and highlights everything between your starting cursor position and the end of the COST ESTIMATE line. Press Home to un-select the the line COST ESTIMATE, which you don't want to copy.
4. Copy the selected block into the Clipboard:
Press: F4
5. Switch back to the window containing SMITH.SPR:
Press: Sf1ift-F6
6. Move the cursor to the top of the file (make sure not to move it above the ruler, though):
Press: etrl-PgUp
7. Paste the text from the Clipboard:
Press: F6
8. You've now completed copying text for the moment, so you'll get some more room to work by closing the other window. Switch to the window containing the proposal file, and close that window:
Press: Shift-F6
Press: F10
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(or use the shortcut Shift-F4>Remember, you're not closing the proposal file; you're just closing the window showing you this file. The proposal file remains open until you deliberately close it with etrl-F4 or the File/ Close command.
The following table summarizes the tasks presented in Lesson 2:
Table 1.3: Tasks in Lesson 2
Select the text you want to copy in one window, press F4 to copy, and switch windows with the shortcut Shift-F6. Then, position your cursor where you want to insert the block and press F6.
Choose File/Pick from List, use the arrow keys to choose a file name from the list, and then press Enter to display the file in the active window. (The shortcut for Pick from List is etrl-F9.)
This completes Lesson 2. The next step is to modify the work order.