Editing
Once you have selected the files from Explorer and the fields you want to work with from Field Selection Dialog, the Editing Dialog is presented. (Screen Shot)
The file name is presented in the left most column as Read-Only. The selected fields are presented as additional columns. Scroll bars allow you to move left and right and up and down to access additional cells. You can use the mouse to drag the bar between cells in the header row or the filename column to expand or shrink the size of a column or row. Drag the far right bar to expand or contract the size of the sheet. A cell can be edited by double clicking on the cell. Read-only fields are displayed in gray.
| Update | Applies the changes to the file information | |
| Cancel | Exits without changing the files | |
| Help | Invokes help file you are reading |
Cells can be selected by clicking with the left mouse button. Multiple cells can be selected by selecting a cell and dragging the mouse to include all desired cells or click on the first desired cell and then clicking on the end desired cell while holding the Shift key down.
Numerous editing commands are available to simplify editing the fields. These commands can be invoked from the Edit pull down menu or the context menu created with a right mouse click anywhere on the grid.
A single cell selection is shown with a light grey border. Multiple selections are shown in blue.
| Copy Cut and Paste | work as you would expect in a spreadsheet. You can copy or cut any range of cells. The copies or cut information can be pasted within the Summary Information Editor or to or from any other application that supports copy/paste. | |
| Clear | clear the contents of the selected cell. | |
| Clear All | clears all Read-Write Fields | |
| Find | invokes the standard Find Dialog to help you find strings within all of cells or the selected range of cells. | |
| Replace | invokes the standard Find/Replace Dialog which also works on all cells or a selected range of cells. |