In the Tablet Input Panel, you have three choices in this instance, to
change the text. In the Writing Pad, Character Pad or using the On-Screen
Keyboard. It is your choice. For your example, you could select the
sentence, then rewrite the whole thing, or:
- Select "Any" by double-tapping the word, then write "All" (without the
quotes) in the TIP. Insert.
- Tap the space immediately next to the end of "sale" and in the TIP write
"s". Insert.
- Tap the space immediately next to the end of "lease" and in the TIP write
"es". Insert.
- Drag/Select "exchanges, " right-click with your pen key or hold the pen to
the screen to achieve the right-click menu, select Cut.
- Tap the space immediately next to the end of "transfer" and in the TIP
write "s". Insert.

The selected text does not appear in the Tablet Input Panel. It is much
easier than you are thinking, once you actually work with the Tablet Input
Panel.
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"Jonathan Sachs" <llm040903@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Thank you, Chris and James, for your input. Chris, what you said about
> editing things (deleting, formatting, etc.) makes perfect sense, and
> confirms my assumptions. Your description of the TIP, and of how to
> change text, is much less clear.
>
> You said that one selects text, opens the TIP, and modifies the text.
> So far so good, but you have only explained WHERE one modifies text
> (in the TIP), not HOW.
>
> Let's take a realistic example. Suppose I wrote "Any sale, lease, or
> other transfer," and I now want to change it to, "All sales, leases,
> exchanges, or other transfers." How do I do this?
>
> If I were using "nice" editing software (with the TIP a given) I
> could:
>
> 1. Select the sentence with a pen, moving it to the TIP.
> 2. Scratch out (or select) "Any" and replace it by writing "All."
> 3. Point after "sale" and write an 's'.
> 4. Point after "lease" and write an 's' and a comma.
> 5. Point after the comma and write ' exchanges' and a comma.
> 6. Point after "transfer" and write an 's'.
> 7. Reinsert the contents of the TIP in the text.
>
> Now, doing the work this way seems to require elementary editing
> gestures which you've implied do not exist. How, then, is it done? I'm
> trying to imagine some design that does not force me to either delete
> and rewrite the whole thing, or select, edit and reinsert each changed
> word. I can think of several ways it MIGHT work, but none of them are
> easy.
>
> My email address is llm040903 at earthlink dot net.