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## Introduction
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Via the **Edit** menu you can perform various actions, such cut/copy/paste or search where a particular document is used. You can also open the [Preferences](/refguide/preferences-dialog/) dialog that contains user-specific settings.
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You can use the **Edit** menu to perform various actions, such as cut, copy, and paste, or search where a particular document is used. You can also open the [Preferences](/refguide/preferences-dialog/) dialog box that contains user-specific settings.
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{{< figure src="/attachments/refguide/modeling/menus/edit-menu/edit-menu.png" alt="Edit Menu" class="no-border" width="300" >}}
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| **Undo** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Z</kbd>) | Undoes the last action in a document tab. Undo and redo actions are unlimited. |
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| **Redo** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Y</kbd>) | Redoes the last action that was undone in a document tab. |
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| **Cut** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>X</kbd>) | Copies the selected element to the clipboard and delete it. |
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| **Cut** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>X</kbd>) | Copies the selected element to the clipboard and deletes it. |
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| **Copy** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>C</kbd>) | Copies the selected element to the clipboard. |
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| **Paste** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>V</kbd>) | Pastes the contents of the clipboard in the current editor. |
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| **Delete** (<kbd>Delete</kbd>) | Deletes the selected element. |
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| **Find** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>F</kbd>) | Searches the model for text. The following texts are searched: all texts that appear in the end-user interface (for example captions of labels or buttons); names and documentation of documents; entity, association, and attribute names and documentation; access rule documentation; page widget names; captions and documentation of microflow objects; and names of items in microflows. |
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| **Find** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>F</kbd>) | Searches the model for text. The following texts are searched: all texts that appear in the end-user interface (for example, captions of labels or buttons); names and documentation of documents; entity, association, and attribute names and documentation; access rule documentation; page widget names; captions and documentation of microflow objects; and names of items in microflows. |
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| **Find Advanced** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>F</kbd>) | Opens a dialog box that allows for advanced search operations. Examples are searching for any document type and searching for unused documents. |
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| **Find Usages** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>F</kbd>) | Opens the **Find Results** pane and displays usages of the selected object. |
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| **Go to** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>G</kbd>) | Quickly navigates to any document or domain model element in the app by typing a few letters and pressing <kbd>Enter</kbd>. |
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| **Next Find Result** (<kbd>F3</kbd>) | Highlights the next find result in the **Find Results** pane and open it in an editor. |
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| **Previous Find Result** (<kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>F3</kbd>) | Highlights the previous find result in the **Find Results** pane and open it in an editor. |
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| **Back** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>-</kbd>) | Move backward through your editing history to show the documents you have recently worked on. |
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| **Forward** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>-</kbd>) | Move forward through your editing history to show the documents you have recently worked on. |
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| **Next Error** (<kbd>F8</kbd>) | Highlights the next error in the **Error List** pane and open it in an editor. |
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| **Previous Error** (<kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>F8</kbd>) | Highlights the previous error result in the **Error List** pane and open it in an editor. |
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| **Next Find Result** (<kbd>F3</kbd>) | Highlights the next find result in the **Find Results** pane and opens it in an editor. |
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| **Previous Find Result** (<kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>F3</kbd>) | Highlights the previous find result in the **Find Results** pane and opens it in an editor. |
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| **Back** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>-</kbd>) | Moves backward through your editing history to show the documents you have recently worked on. |
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| **Forward** (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>-</kbd>) | Moves forward through your editing history to show the documents you have recently worked on. |
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| **Next Error** (<kbd>F8</kbd>) | Highlights the next error in the **Error List** pane and opens it in an editor. |
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| **Previous Error** (<kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>F8</kbd>) | Highlights the previous error result in the **Error List** pane and opens it in an editor. |
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| **Preferences** | Opens the **Preferences** dialog box, where you can set your general, model, and advanced editing preferences. For more information on the **Preferences** dialog box, see [Preferences](/refguide/preferences-dialog/). |
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You can search for changes or usages of different elements, documents, XPaths, changes to various elements, in your app. You do it via **Find**, **Find Advanced**, and **Find Usages** options under the **Edit** menu.
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You can search for changes or usages of different elements, documents, and XPaths in your app. You can do this with the **Find**, **Find Advanced**, and **Find Usages** options under the **Edit** menu.
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{{< figure src="/attachments/refguide/modeling/menus/edit-menu/find-and-find-advanced/find-options.png" alt="Find Options" >}}
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You can find various elements in your app via the **Find** option. For example, you would like to find elements in the domain model, page editor, and microflow editor where the word "Employee" is used: pages, entities, associations, expressions with it, etc. Do the following:
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