Customizing the Display and Printer session interfaceEdit menu

Edit menu

The following topics describe the options that are available from the Edit menu.

  • Edit properties – Except BlueZone VT
    The Edit Properties window is used to configure the BlueZone copy and paste functionality. From the BlueZone menu bar, click Edit → Properties. The Edit Properties window opens displaying the General, Copy to Clipboard, Copy to File, Copy to Printer, and Paste from Clipboard tabs.
  • Edit properties - BlueZone VT
    The Edit Properties window is used to configure the BlueZone VT copy and paste functionality. From the BlueZone VT menu bar, click Edit → Properties. The Edit Properties dialog opens displaying the General, Copy to Clipboard, Copy to File, Copy to Printer, and Paste from Clipboard tabs.
  • Use Undo and Redo
    In Mainframe, iSeries, T27, and UTS Display sessions, you can undo and redo actions related to the following: mouse cursor movement, emulation cursor and field functions, Edit, Cut and Paste, and user text typing. BlueZone stores up to 32 of the supported actions.
  • Cutting text to the clipboard
    With BlueZone, users have the ability to remove session text from the display session and paste it onto the Windows clipboard. The clipboard text can then be pasted back into another screen of the display session or into another Windows application. To cut session text to the clipboard:
  • Copying text to the clipboard
    With BlueZone, users have the ability to copy session text from the display session and place it into the Windows clipboard. This clipboard text can then be pasted back into another screen of the display session or into another Windows application.
  • Copying text to a file
    BlueZone users may copy session text from the display session and write the text to a disk file. To highlight text in the display session for copying to a file:
  • Copying text to the printer
    With BlueZone, users have the ability to copy session text from the display session and send it to the printer. To highlight text in the display session for copying to the printer:
  • Pasting text in display sessions
    BlueZone users have the ability to copy text from the Windows clipboard and place it into the host screen of a display session.
  • Select options
  • Copying and dragging text
    BlueZone users can select session text and then copy it to another location on the screen by dragging the selected text. Make sure that the Enable Drag Drop Copy Paste check box is enabled on the Edit Properties General tab.
  • Using BlueZone VT and 6530 OLE drag-and-drop
    BlueZone supports OLE drag-and-drop to and from other Windows OLE compliant applications. For example, you can drag-and-drop text from a BlueZone VT or 6530 session to a Word document or Excel spreadsheet and vice versa.
  • Using Entry Assist mode
    You can use Entry Assist mode to input data more efficiently. In this mode, you can set tab stops in mainframe and iSeries sessions and quickly move the cursor from one tab stop to another.
Parent topic: Customizing the Display and Printer session interface