4 The Edit menu

The Edit menu allows you to save or select the current solution from the result set for a query. It has three commands:

• Copy copies the current solution to the Windows clipboard;
• Bookmark creates a bookmark, that is, a named pointer to the currently selected solution;
• Goto moves to a previously defined bookmark, making the solution which it points to the current solution.

At any time one of the set of solutions being displayed is known as the current solution: in page display mode (6.4.1 ), this is the solution which is visible on the screen; in line display mode, it is the solution which has a broken line above and below it. In line mode you make a solution current by scrolling to it, and clicking on it with the mouse. In either mode, you can move forward or backward through the result set by using the arrow keys on the tool bar or the cursor keys on the keyboard.

Choosing the Copy command from the Edit menu copies the current solution to the Windows clipboard, in whatever format it has on the screen. If you now open a Windows application such as Notepad or some other word processor, and select the Paste command from its Edit menu, the current solution will be available to that application. This is a simple way of copying information from SARA to other programs.

A bookmark is a name which you can attach to the current solution so that you can refer to it again, after it has ceased to be current. Bookmarks are specific to particular queries, and are saved and retrieved along with queries.

To create a bookmark for the current solution, select the Bookmark command from the Edit menu. The Bookmark dialogue box will appear, into which you can type any short name for the bookmark. If the name is already in use, you will be offered the choice of overwriting the current bookmark of that name. A list of the names you are currently using, and the queries to which they relate, appears in the lower part of the window.

To make a different solution current, you can choose one of your named bookmarks by means of the Goto command on the Edit menu. Choosing this command opens the Goto Bookmark dialogue box.

Clicking on a bookmark in this window will make the solution to which it points the current one, assuming that the result set from which it comes is available. If you delete a result, for example, by thinning the result set, any associated bookmark will also be deleted. Result sets remain available for as long as they are either open as windows or present as minimized icons on the desk top. If you save a query (using the Save command on the File menu), its associated bookmarks are saved along with it. If you subsequently close the query (using the Close command of the File menu, or the window controls), its associated bookmarks disappear from the Goto dialogue box, but will re-appear if you re-open it.

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