Right click Operations for Text Selection

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Right-click Operations for Text Selection

If you select some text in the Rich Text Editor’s editable region and right-click it, a pop-up “contextual” menu will be displayed containing the available action options:

The text contextual menu provides the following operations:

Cut - Remove the selected text from the page and place it on the clipboard. This menu entry performs the same action as the Cut command in the toolbar.
Copy - Copy the selected text to the clipboard and leave it on the page as well. This menu entry performs the same action as the Copy command in the toolbar.
Paste - Replace the selected text with the content from the clipboard (or if there is no selection, simply place the content at the cursor location). If no content is on the clipboard, the Paste option is disabled. This menu entry performs the same action as the Paste command in the toolbar.
Paste from Word - Replace the current selection with clipboard content that has been copied from Microsoft Word. Whenever you try to paste content from Word, you will be asked if you want to clean it first of all the formatting tags that are specific for Microsoft Word. You can think of the Paste from Word command as a combination the Paste command and the Clean Word Markup command. If the content you copied from Microsoft Word includes images, when you paste it in the Rich Text Editor area you'll notice that images are replaced by a generic placeholder so that you will not lose track of them and their position. This way you can easily upload and then insert the needed images in the page.
Clean content - This sub-menu expands on hover. Read about its role and the three options here.

As you might have noticed, the right-click contextual menus group together related options that are often used, and can save a considerable amount of time.

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