Many of the more common tasks can be done more simply be using
the mouse to drag-and-drop:
- Drag the tabs in the Document Tab Bar over to the
Layer Manager or to the Layer Bar to move documents between layers.
- Drag the buttons in the Layer Bar to rearrange the
layers in the workspace.
- Drag the buttons in the Layer Manager (shown in the
Side Bar in the picture) to rearrange documents and layers.
- Drag a file or a link from the Desktop or Windows
Explorer onto the Layer Manager or the Workspace Background
to open the file or navigate to the link.
- Drag a link on a web page or the Shortcut Icon to
the Desktop or Windows Explorer to create a shortcut.
- Drag a link on a web page to the Download File
button to start a background file download.
- Drag text from one document to another to move or copy text
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Moving Documents
to Other Layers
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Each tab in the Document Tab Bar corresponds to
a document in the active layer. You can move a document to another layer by
dragging the appropriate tab in the Document Tab Bar onto the
Layer Bar.
In addition, you can also rearrange documents and layers by
dragging-and-dropping within the Layer Manager window (accessed
by selecting Layer Manager from the Window
menu).
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Re-Ordering Layers
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You can drag the buttons on the Layer Bar to
re-order the layers. You can also drag the layers in the Layer Manager
to re-order them.
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Moving Text from
One Layer to Another
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To drag text from one layer to another, simply highlight and drag
the text over to the Layer Bar (while holding the mouse button
down). As you drag the text over the Layer Bar, the
corresponding layers will activate and you can then drop the text onto the
desired location in the active layer
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Opening Saved
Files or Workspaces
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Research-Desk will open files or Internet Shortcuts dragged onto
the Workspace Background. For example, you can open a Word
document on the desktop by dragging it from the desktop onto the
Workspace Background. You can also open a web page link by dragging it
from a browser window onto the background.
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Internet URLs or
Links
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You can drag a link from a web page onto the Workspace
Background to open the link in a new browser window. You can also drag
a link onto the Layer Bar to activate a layer before dropping
it onto the workspace background.
You can also drag the icon to the left of the browser's
Address Bar onto an Explorer window to create a shortcut, or
onto the Workspace Background to open the link in a new browser
window.
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Moving Text
between Documents
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Arrange the documents so that they are visible side by side
(Select Windows, Tile Vertically or Tile Horizontally to
arrange the documents in the active layer). You can then drag text from any
document - web page, Word document, Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation -
to any other.
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