Keyboard & Mouse Editing in a Page

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To set the insertion point, click the mouse.
- To set the insertion point in a link, use CTRL+click to avoid following the link (hold the CTRL button down and click the mouse).
To select a block of text, hold the mouse button down and sweep over the letters or words that you want to select.
To extend any selection to the current mouse position, SHIFT+click (hold the SHIFT button down and click the mouse).
To select a single word, double-click anywhere on the word.
To select a word that is a hyperlink, hold down the CTRL key. CTRL+double-click selects a single word. Clicking on the hyperlink without pressing CTRL accesses the URL that the link refers to.
To select a whole paragraph, triple-click anywhere in the paragraph.
To select the whole page, quadruple-click anywhere in the page.
Click in the margin to select parts of a page:
- single-click selects a line
- double-click selects a paragraph
- triple-click selects a page

As you move the mouse, the status bar shows the link destinations you move over.
If you click on a link, the link is loaded into the current window. If you double-click on a link, it is loaded into a new window.
If you hold down the mouse button on a link and drag the pointer into another AOLpress page window and then release, then that window follows the link.
If you depress the mouse on a link and drag the pointer into a MiniWeb window, that page being linked to is inserted into the MiniWeb.
If you depress the mouse on a link and drag the pointer out of any AOLpress window, then a new window is created to follow the link.
If you hold down the right mouse button (on the Macintosh, hold the command key down and press the button) on a link and drag the cursor to another window, a link is made to the URL of the original link. The link is inserted where you release the mouse. If you release the mouse on top of a selection, the selection is bound to the link, otherwise the title of the page is inserted and used as the link.
If you click on the icon of an image that has not been loaded (either because you clicked the Stop icon, or because image loading is turned off) then it is loaded.
On a machine running X, clicking with the middle mouse button will insert the current selection (NOT the clipboard) into the page in the location you clicked (this is close to xterm's behavior).

If your keyboard has keys labeled Cut, Copy and Paste then these will do the obvious.
Holding down the Control key when depressing the Copy key will do a Copy URL.
On a Sparc keyboard the keys labeled Again and Undo will do Redo and Undo.
Pressing Return will start a new paragraph in whatever way seems appropriate. In a list it will create a new list item. In a header it will exit the header and start a new paragraph.
Pressing Linefeed or CTRL+J (at the end of a list, form, etc.) will exit the current element (list, header, form) and start a new paragraph in whatever way seems appropriate.
Pressing Backspace (or CTRL+H) will delete the last character.
Pressing CTRL+D will delete the next character.
Pressing Delete (if this is different from Backspace) will normally delete the next character, but you may change things with the Preferences menu so that it deletes the previous character.
Pressing CTRL+W will delete the preceding word.
Pressing CTRL+U will delete to the beginning of the line.

Under UNIX you may want to use the Special Char menu item to insert accented letters.