Deleting Text

Prerequisites

As in most other word-processing programs, you can delete text in the line editor with the backspace and delete keys. This topic describes additional delete functions offered by SAPscript.

Procedure

Deleting Extra Blanks

If your document contains sequences of more than one blank space, you can delete the superfluous blank spaces with the Compress command.

Mark the text from which you want to remove superfluous blanks.
Choose Edit Selected Area Compress. All strings of consecutive blank spaces are compressed into a single space.

Note

Compress does not observe the American formatting rule that two spaces should follow a period ending a sentence. If you compress text that includes sentence ends, then you will need to re-insert the second space at the end of each sentence.

Deleting Text Without Overwriting the Clipboard

Mark the text you want to delete.
Choose Delete.

The selected text is deleted and cannot be reinserted in your document.