In many dialogs in tables and fields a popup menu available. The menu items displayed, and / or which can be activated, depend on both the field type of the selected field or table cell, and also whether you have simply selected a table cell (single click) or selected a value for editing (double-click).
Popup menu items for the display of tables
The following listed menu items are used to influence the representation of the table.
Popup menu items for the editing of values
The following listed menu items are used for the entry and editing of values in fields and tables. Also in many places - both for marked as well as for selected fields / spreadsheet cells - the familiar Windows functionalities, such as cutting, copying, inserting, deleting etc., are available.
Menu items for editing selected fields / table cells:
Menu item |
Meaning |
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Paste properties / values |
Only in the property tables (property name / value). Allows for pasting one or several properties, including their values, that have been copied from another object. If the property already exists then only the values are inserted. If a property has not been displayed in the table yet, it - and the copied value - will be shown after pasting. |
Special characters |
Opens the Special characters dialog, in which you can select the desired character and insert it at the current cursor position with [OK]. |
Line break |
Inserts a line break at the current cursor position. |
Multi-line input |
Opens the Multi-line input dialog where you can enter the lines desired. A line break can be forced using [Ctrl]+[Enter]. |
Update selection list |
Only in fields containing a selection list. Supplements missing entries and deletes unused entries from the selection list: In the case of certain properties, the values entered there are written to a selection list and are then available for other objects of the same type. |
Popup menu items for multilingual texts
The following listed menu items are used for the entry and editing of multilingual texts in fields and tables.
Menu item |
Meaning |
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Translate |
Opens the Found words dialog if dictionary translation entries exist for the entered term. Select the suitable translation text. If there are no translations in the dictionary, the Translate dialog is launched to enable you to enter a new translation text. |
Remove translations |
Removes all translation texts for the marked texts. In the process the marked texts become language-neutral texts. |
Mark text as 'Excluded from translation' |
Marks the selected text as "Excluded from translation". Texts marked in this way are excluded both from the translation and from being output into a missing-word file. |
Remove marking |
Removes the "Exclude from translation" marking for the selected text so that the particular text will be included in the translation again. |
Multilingual input |
Opens the Multilingual input dialog, in which you can enter the output text for the desired translation text. |