Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

Edit Menu

The Edit menu commands focus on editing tools, whether that means moving text around in an email message or memo, looking for a text string inside Entourage’s files, managing message threads, or changing an item’s category.

Undo

Takes back the last thing that you did, like deleting that vital chunk of text by accident. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-Z.

Redo

Once you’ve undone something, then the Redo command becomes available, in case you change your mind. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-Y.

Cut

Cuts the selected text or object out of the document and puts it on the Clipboard, ready for pasting into a different window or program. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-X.

Copy

Copies the selected text or object and puts it on the Clipboard, ready for pasting into a different window or program. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-C.

Copy to Scrapbook

Copies to the Scrapbook (Scrapbook). You can store clips on the Scrapbook—and subsequently paste them—from any Office program. Keyboard shortcut: Shift-⌘-C.

Paste

Pastes the contents of the Clipboard into a document at the location of the insertion point. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-V.

Paste From Scrapbook

Pastes a clip from the Scrapbook. Keyboard shortcut: Shift-⌘-V.

Paste Special

Once you’ve got something on the clipboard, you can choose how Entourage pastes it from this submenu.

• Paste As Quotation. Pastes the text on the clipboard into an open Entourage window as an Internet-style quotation—that is, with > brackets in front of each line, to let your correspondent know you’re quoting back something ...