>In Emailer I noticed that one can highlight and select a text or even one >or more letters and drag them to a new location. This is helpful when >one makes typing errors. But when I tried to do this on my Word 6.0 it >did not work and yet I thought I could do this before on a previous >version. Maybe I don't have Preferences set right. Any one know how to >do this in word processing applications? It works in AppleWorks, Claris >Works but not in InDesign, Aldus Freehand or WordPerfect.
Its a feature of Drag and Drop. Not all applications support it. I don't have Word 6 installed to try it, but it does work in Word 98. Its very possible that Word 6 doesn't support it, nor InDesign or Freehand. In fact, I'd be surprised if Freehand did it, as that is more of a graphics program, so it will have more limited text processing abilities. And WordPerfect is probably too old to support it (Drag and Drop was added in System 7.?? and didn't roll fully into the OS until OS 8, so many things didn't support it until OS 8, and I think WordPerfect's last version is older then that). I am a little surprised that InDesign wouldn't support drag and drop editing. That's a newer application for Desktop Publishing (right?). I would think it would be new enough to have been common when it was written, and I would think since it already would have a form of drag editing, that drag and drop cut/paste would have been a no brainer. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
