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Scissors Mobile Help (rev.1)

Scissors Mobile adds the missing editing capabilities to Outlook Mobile. Edit documents easier and manage your email more productively. You can copy a section of another email message to forward to a colleague, copy information between your tasks, calendar, contacts and messaging with ease. You can even move information between Outlook Mobile and third party applications like the legendary Notepad Mobile.

Scissors Mobile enables the Edit menu for the following Outlook Mobile applications.

  • Inbox, while composing a message.
  • Contacts, while editing a contact.
  • Tasks, while entering a new task.

The About screen shows the current version of Scissors Mobile. When you select More, the display will show you additional information. Pressing the directional buttons will also scroll thru the additional information. When you are finished, select Done to return to the main screen.

Cut and Paste Basics

Do you remember using Scissors when you were younger? You would cut along the lines, and next you would paste it with glue onto another piece of paper. Devices share this same concept, you can cut information from one place and paste it into another. Once you learn to cut and paste, your device will become much more powerful.

Select Text with MarkEditâ„¢

Before you can cut or copy text, you need to specify the text by selecting it. Enter MarkEditâ„¢, a simple and easy way to select text.

  1. Move to the first part of the text you want to select.
  2. Select the Mark command from the Edit menu
  3. Move to the last part of the text you want to select.

Rearrange Text with Cut and Paste

You can move text from one location in a document to another, or even another document.

  1. Select the text to move; use MarkEditâ„¢.
  2. Cut the text; select the Cut command from the Edit menu.
  3. Move to the new location and Paste; select the Paste command from theEdit menu.

Copy Text Anywhere with Copy and Paste

It's easy to copy information from one location to another. You can even copy information from one document to another.

  1. Select the text to copy; Use MarkEditâ„¢.
  2. Copy the text; select the Copy command from the Edit menu.
  3. Move to the new location and Paste; select the Paste command from theEdit menu.

Select All Text

Select All is a helpful feature that can save time, by automatically selecting all of the text in the document. Select All is only available when the Full Menu is enabled.

1. Select the Select All command from the Edit menu.

Undo and Redo Previous Actions

Paste text into the wrong place, and the Undo command can save a lot of time. As the name suggests, it will undo the last action. If you didn't mean to undo an action, the Redo command can fix that.

  1. Select the Undo command from the Edit menu.

Unusable Commands Are Grayed

When a command cannot be accessed, it will be grayed on the menu, and unavailable. To Cut or Copy, you must Mark the text first. To Paste, you must Copy or Cut first. Additionally, the cursor must be in a valid place to paste. 

Share Information Between Applications

The information from a Cut or Copy operation, will be stored in an area called the Clipboard. Each time a Cut or Copy operation is performed, the date in the Clipboard is overwritten. A Paste operation will copy the contents of the Clipboard to the current application. Any application can share information with another thru the Clipboard. The information from a Cut or Copy operation is available to any other application that can Paste the information.

Scissors Mobile Options

You can configure the way Scissors Mobile functions, simply enable or disable the options.

BoldMark - Change the font when MarkEditâ„¢ is active, providing a visual indication it is active. When the cursor is moved, the selection will increase or decrease when MarkEditâ„¢ is active regardless.

WordMark - Select a full word when MarkEditâ„¢ is active with the rocker switch or jog dial. Including the Motorola Q scroll wheel.

Full Menu - Scissors Mobile can display a simple menu, or a complete menu with additional functionality.

See Also


Registration

To enable the full functionality of the application you will need to enter a valid registration code. When you have entered your registration code properly, you will be able to select Done. If the code you have entered is incorrect, you will not be able to select done. The registration code is based upon the Owner Name in the Owner Information for the device, you may obtain a registration code by visiting the Orneta website @ http://www.orneta.com or mobile site @ http://mobile.orneta.com

TIP: The Owner Information must be setup for the registration code to work properly, and must match the username of the Registration code exactly.