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COPY

 

You can copy a selected network section to the clipboard using Start | Clipboard | Copy or Ctrl-C.

The section is copied to two clipboards:

 

Windows clipboard

A graphical copy is transferred to the Windows clipboard. This copy is object-oriented.

 

Vision clipboard

The network section is transferred to the Vision clipboard as a data structure.

The copy usually contains a number of components, these can subsequently be pasted on the basis of the nodes contained in the copy. Without nodes, it is not possible to have branches or elements.

There are, however, four special types of copies:

•one or more elements all connected to the same single node;

•one or more parallel branches between two nodes;

•a network section containing one branch and one node, while the other node has not been selected and copied (the branch is ‘open’ at one end)

•one switch/protection device.

 

When a copy is made, a file is created in the temporary directory: the graphical representation of the network in the enhanced metafile format (Vision.emf). These images can be imported to various Windows programs.

 

 

CUT

 

You can cut the selected network section using Start | Clipboard | Cut or Ctrl-X.

Cut is the same as copy, followed by deleting the network section.

 

 

PASTE

 

Windows clipboard

The graphical copy on the Windows clipboard can be pasted in various Windows programs, including MS Office products. After pasting, the image can still be edited.

 

Vision clipboard

During the Vision session, the copied network section can be pasted into the same network, or into another network. There are two ways of doing this.

 

From the network form:

•move the pointer to where you want the top left-hand corner of the copy to go, then click the right mouse button.

•select Paste from the menu.

 

From the menu:

•move the pointer to where you want the top left-hand corner of the copy to go and click here using the left mouse button.

•select Start | Clipboard | Paste.

 

When you paste, components are added in their entirety.

 

When pasting copies from the four special kinds of copies using the Vision Clipboard as referred to above, the following components have to be selected:

•the node to which the element(s) are to be pasted

•the two or three nodes between which the branches are to be pasted

•the node to which the open branch is to be pasted

•the field to which the switch/protection has to be pasted (a field is a combination of node and branch or node and element).

 

Paste Special

 

Paste multiple elements

One or more copied elements that are connected to one common node can be pasted together to other selected nodes using Start | Clipboard | Paste | Paste special.

 

Paste multiple switches

The special coping of switches and protection devices also offers the opportunity to paste the copied switch/protection into more than one fields in a single pasting action. Select all the fields where the switch/protection has to be pasted and choose Start | Clipboard | Paste | Paste special.

 

Do not paste selections

When pasting all the objects parameters are copied. By selecting Don't paste selections, the selections of the copied objects are not copied to the pasted components.