The Editor menu

...contains Cut, Copy, Paste, Select All, Find, the Boilerplate and Keywords functions, Unformat, and Discard All Changes.

(It probably ought to be Edit, but I'm lazy and didn't want to go to the bother of customizing the Edit menu for either the note grid or the note editor, whichever happened to be active at the time.)

Cut, Copy and Paste work as you might expect. They'd better, anyway. Getting them to behave themselves under Windows 95, as opposed to Windows 2000, was far more difficult than it ought to have been.

Select All does.

The Find function is a bit more useful than some Finds you may have found. Let's have a look at the dialog.

First we see two edit boxes with a tall blank button to their right. Full marks if you guessed that these are the text-to-find box and the text-to-replace-with box. The blank button to the right will swap said boxes' contents. This was, and is, for testing purposes, but you can probably imagine a reason to click it.

Next we have some more buttons.

Find, Replace and Replace All are common enough.

Find Lines will find every occurrence of the search term in the editor, all at once, and display the lines in which the term was found in the list box to the right of the editing window. You can click the list to go straight to the appropriate line. Keen, no?

Find Notes will find every occurrence of the search term in the entire notebox and display the matching notes in the list box to the right of the Note Grid. Find Notes In is the same but first provides a dialog allowing you to specify which categories to search.

Close closes the Find window. (So will pressing Escape, and, for that matter, Control-F.)

To the right of the buttons we have some switches (but no lights or knobs). Checking the Use CR substitute box will tell Find to treat any occurences of the specified character ("!" by default) in the find- or replace- texts as a carriage return, thus allowing you to find and/or replace returns should you wish to do so. The Cursor Up/Down/From Start radio buttons control the direction of finding and replacing in the editor. The Match Case and Whole Words options are obvious enough. Checking Bounded Find will tell Find to act in a more search-engine fashion -- each word or "phrase in quotes" in the text-to-find box will be found separately. E.G., if you turn on Bounded Find, enter

Tom Dick "Harry Zell"

in the find box and click Find Notes, Find will break the entry into "Tom" "Dick" and "Harry Zell", and return only those notes that contain all three names. Clicking Find Lines, on the other hand, will list all the lines in the editor containing any of those names. This made sense at the time but now seems inconsistent to me. Possibly it should list only those lines containing ALL of those names. Possibly there should be some option to find notes containing ANY of those names. Well, you can't have everything.

At the bottom of the Find box is a status line that will tell you whether or not it managed to find anything, and how long it took if it did.

So much for that. Back to the Editor menu.

Unformat removes all formatting from the text in the editor. Plain text takes up less space and is faster to search, so if you can make use of it, why not? (In the Tools menu is a Plaintextify function that will do the same thing to ALL your notes.)

Discard All Changes will. As the editor was when you first entered it and started typing, so shall it be again.

Thus ends the Editor menu. Note that the Editor menu does not list Undo. This is not because there is no Undo but because I don't want to raise hopes unnecessarily. Pressing Control-Z in the editor should and probably will undo the last change made, but what with one esoteric thing after another (insert blame here) this is not guaranteed.