Text Edit Commands
Description: Following is a description of the Text Edit commands, in addition to the common commands. Most of these commands are available as toolbar buttons.
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Following is a description of the Text Edit commands, in addition to the common commands. Most of these commands are available as toolbar buttons.

Pick Tools > Options and switch to the Commands page to define your own keyboard shortcuts, and hide or expose commands on the menus and toolbars.

The File menu

| Open File | Opens an existing file.
| Open File on File System * | Opens an existing local file.
| Open File Using Profile * | Opens an existing file using a profile.
| Open With | Opens the file in one of the external Open With applications.
| Open With > Associated Application | Opens the file with its associated application.
| Open With > Text Patch | Opens the file with the built-in patch view.
| Save File | Saves the modified file.
| Save File As | Saves the file with a new name.
| Save File on File System As * | Saves the file with a new name on the file system.
| Save File Using Profile As * | Saves the file with a new name using a profile.
| Explorer | Displays the file manager's context menu for the file.
| Check In | Appears if a source control provider has been configured and the file is under source control.
| Check Out |
| Undo Check Out |

The Edit menu

| Undo | Undoes previous action.
| Redo | Redoes previously undone action.
| Increase Indent | Increases indentation of selected lines.
| Decrease Indent | Decreases indentation of selected lines.
| Cut / Copy / Paste / Delete | Standard editing commands.
| Delete Line * | Deletes the current line.
| Delete to Start of Line * | Deletes text from the current position to the beginning of the line.
| Delete to End of Line * | Deletes text from the current position to the end of the line.
| Delete Word * | Deletes the word at the current position.
| Delete to Start of Word * | Deletes from the current position to the beginning of the word.
| Delete to End of Word * | Deletes from the current position to the end of the word.
| Insert Line Before * | Inserts a new blank line before the current line.
| Insert Line After * | Inserts a new blank line after the current line.
| Select All | Selects all visible lines.
| Convert File > Trim Trailing Whitespace | Strips off spaces and tab characters at end of lines.
| Convert File > Leading Spaces to Tabs | Replaces spaces at the beginning of lines with the appropriate number of tab characters (based on current tab stop setting).
| Convert File > Tabs To Spaces | Replaces all tab characters with the appropriate number of space characters (based on current tab stop setting).
| Convert File > Line Endings | Changes the line ending style on all lines.

The Search menu

| Next Edit | Positions at the next edited line beyond the cursor.
| Previous Edit | Positions at previous edited line before the cursor.
| Find | Searches for matching text.
| Replace | Replaces matching text.
| Find Next | Finds next occurrence of search string.
| Find Previous | Finds previous occurrence of search string.
| Find in Files | Finds search string in multiple files.
| Go To | Positions at specified line and column.
| Toggle Bookmark | Places a numbered marker on the current line of the comparison, numbered from 0 to 9.
| Go To Bookmark | Repositions at the specified bookmark.
| Clear Bookmarks | Removes all bookmarks from the comparison.

The View menu

| Visible Whitespace | Shows or hides visible spaces, tabs.
| Line Numbers | Shows or hides line numbers.
| Syntax Highlighting | Shows or hides syntax highlighting.
| Word Wrap | Enables or disables wrapping long lines.
| Display Font * | Selects the font to use in editor pane.
| Increase Display Font Size * | Increases editor font size.
| Decrease Display Font Size * | Decreases editor font size.
| Reset Display Font Size * | Resets editor font size.
| Webpages | Shows or hides web browser panel that displays the current file as a webpage.
| File Info | Shows or hides file information panels at the top of editor panes.
| Toolbar | Shows or hides the toolbar.

* Hidden by default.