Sorry, I thought you understood editing in Word as it applied to text. It
is the same as using a mouse and cursor. You select a word or words, entire
sentences or paragraphs, or multiples thereof by dragging your pen just as
you would with a mouse/cursor combination. Drag/Select, then do commands
just as you would with a mouse. In this case, your pen is your mouse.

Example, drag and select a paragraph using the pen. You want to delete,
then either right-click the pen button or hold the pen tip to the surface to
achieve the right-click menu. Select Delete or Cut, Copy or Paste. Since
you're talking about existing text, there's no magic thing like the gestures
(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u.../gestures.mspx)
to select a word, sentence or paragraph and then "scratch-out" the
selection.

Your additional items of inserting text, changing a word, etc., would be
handled through the Tablet Input Panel, where you would select the text
words (or words) in Word, then open the TIP and modify what you want written
there by writing the word or words, then tapping Insert. Selection of font
styles, colors, bold face, Italics, etc., still must be done through the
Word menu items, because it is the Office program which controls how that's
done, not the TIP or Tablet PC Edition superset.

Some input is easier, depending on the program. Windows Journal, for
instance, since the input is handwriting, can be edited with the scratch-out
gesture if you later want to change a word, sentence or paragraph. OneNote
has the same functionality, too, but in both cases the gesture only applies
to Ink, not text.
--
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/nichol.mspx
In memory of a true friend, Windows MVP Alex Nichol

Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Jonathan Sachs" <llm040903@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:29:30 -0800, "Chris H." wrote:
>
>>You won't find exactly what you want...
>>However, for removing a word, a double-tap with your pen will select it,
>>then a right-click or holding the pen tip to the screen for a right-click
>>menu will allow you to use Delete. As for inserting a word, you just
>>place
>>your cursor where you want to insert the word then use the TIP floating
>>icon
>>(Tablet Input Panel Access icon) to write the new word.
>
> Thanks for providing part of an answer to my question. I hope we can
> answer it completely if we focus on what I said in the OP: "the
> important thing is the ability to make changes to typed document
> content with the pen."
>
> Bear in mind that routine editing operations require all sorts of
> changes to text, such as: inserting, deleting or replacing individual
> letters or sequences of letters to correct misspellings; inserting,
> deleting or replacing single words or small groups of words; inserting
> or deleting larger pieces of text in paragraphs, or entire paragraphs;
> changing letters or words from lower case to capitalized and vice
> versa; setting styles; turning boldface and italics on and off; and so
> forth.
>
> I tried to clarify my original inquiry with a couple of specific
> statements about inserting and deleting "text." You responded by
> telling me how I could insert or delete "a word."
>
> Were you using "a word" as a synonym for "text"? Or does "a word"
> literally mean "a word," so that to insert a four-word phrase I would
> have to perform an "insert word" operation four times? What about
> other common editing operations? Are they implemented with distinct
> commands (or not at all), or does insert/delete work the same way no
> matter what the unit(s) of text?
>
> My email address is llm040903 at earthlink dot net.