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The Edit menu contains all commands and options relating to editing. You'll find the classic Mac cut/copy/paste and find/replace commands here, as well as many more.


Undo and Redo

Undo/Redo: Takes back your last action or redoes it. Undo and Redo work for most actions.


Cut

Cut/Copy/Paste: Do exactly what they're supposed to do.

Copy URL: Copies the URL of the selected or front document to the Clipboard.

Copy Item Link: Copies a URL to the Clipboard that links to the selected or front item. This URL can be pasted into other documents in other applications to create a link to the item in DEVONthink Personal.

Paste with Current Style: Pastes text from the Clipboard into rich text documents, disregarding all styles from the clipped text. Useful for pasting text from other applications or documents with a style that differs from the target document.

Delete: Deletes the selected piece of text.

Complete: Tries to auto-complete the partial word before the insertion caret. This standard Mac OS X function uses the currently active dictionary, which you can change via the spell check panel (see below).

Select All/Deselect All: Selects or deselects the complete content of the front document.


PDF editing

Split Document: Splits the current document (PDF, plain or rich text) at the insertion mark position.

Insert Blank Page: Inserts a blank page into the PDF at the position selected in the sidebar.

Delete Selected Page(s): Deletes the page(s) selected in the sidebar.


Rotating

Rotate Left/Right: Rotate a selected image left and right. The changed file is saved in the lossless TIFF format.


Summarize

Summarize: Summarizes the selected piece of text. Unlike Mac OS X's Summarize service, this command takes advantage of the built-in AI of DEVONthink Personal, and uses the complete 'knowledge' contained in the open databases for improving the results. The better your databases, the better the results.


Find

Find: This sub-menu contains commands for finding and replacing text as well as for bringing DEVONthink Personal's database search field into focus.

  • In Database: Brings the search field of the front window into focus.
  • Find: Open the standard panel for finding text within a document.
  • Find Next/Previous: Jumps to the next, or previous occurence, of the last search term.
  • Use Selection for Find: Copies the selected piece of text to the find Clipboard or into the search field of the find panel if it is opened.
  • Scroll To Selection: Scrolls the displayed documents to the current selection.

Spelling and Grammar: Provides the standard Mac OS X functionality for checking a text for misspellings or bad grammar. To choose the language used for spell checking, or for auto-completion (see above), open the spell checker panel with Edit > Spelling > Spelling and choose your language of choice from the pop-up menu.

Substitutions: Show the standard Substitutions preference panel and switch the available options manually on and off: Smart Copy/Paste, Smart Quotes, Smart Dashes, Smart Links, Data Detectors, and Text Replacements. Data Detectors analyse shown text and make context-sensitive actions available, e.g. when you hover with the cursor over a phone number or postal address. Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' or higher only.

Transformations: Use this sub-menu to make selected text all lowercase, all uppercase, or to capitalize every word.

Speech: Starts or stops speaking the selected piece of text.

Insert: Inserts special characters, the current date, and/or time or a picture into your text. Of course, you can only embed a picture into a rich text document, not into a plain text document.

Special Characters: Shows the standard Special Characters panel for inserting characters that you cannot enter directly with your keyboard.

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