Teach Yourself VISUALLY Macs, 3rd Edition

Edit Document Text

When you work with a character-based file, such as a text or word processing document or an email message, you need to know the basic techniques for editing, selecting, copying, and moving text. The text that you enter into a document is rarely perfect the first time through. It is likely to contain errors that require correcting, or words, sentences, or paragraphs that appear in the wrong place.

To get your document text the way you want it, you need to know how to edit text, including deleting characters, selecting the text you want to work with, and copying and moving text.

Edit Document Text

Delete Characters

In a text ...