Edit Menu in InPage: A Complete Guide
to Commands and Settings
In the previous lesson we covered how to use the File Menu in InPage. Now it is time to open one of the most useful parts of the program. The Edit menu in InPage is where you control, change, and fine-tune almost everything inside your document.
Once you understand these commands, your work becomes faster, cleaner, and far less stressful. In this guide I will walk you through each command in plain, simple words, exactly as I would explain it to a friend sitting right beside me.
The Edit menu in InPage sits at the top of your screen, right next to the File menu. It holds the everyday tools you will reach for in almost every project. These are the core commands you should learn first, and they will quickly become second nature:
- Cut, Copy, and Paste. Cut (Ctrl+X) removes the selected text or object and stores it for you. Copy (Ctrl+C) makes a duplicate without removing the original. Paste (Ctrl+V) drops that stored content wherever you click. These three are the backbone of all editing work.
- Duplicate. This command instantly makes a second copy of any selected object and places it slightly to the side. I use it constantly when I need repeated boxes, borders, or labels on the same page.
- Clear. Clear simply deletes the selected item without copying it anywhere. Think of it as a quick erase for content you are sure you will not need again.
- Find and Replace. This is a real time-saver. It lets you search for a word across your entire document and swap it for another in seconds. When I have to correct a spelling that appears fifty times in a book, this one tool saves me a full hour.
A quick tip from experience: when you paste Urdu text that you copied from a website, an email, or WhatsApp, it often looks broken because of font and encoding differences. In that situation, first run the text through a Unicode to InPage text converter to turn it into proper InPage-ready text, and then paste it cleanly into your page. This single habit will save you from hours of retyping.
When you begin designing real pages, you will place many objects such as boxes, lines, pictures, and text frames on top of one another. The Edit menu in InPage gives you simple controls to manage which object sits where:
- Send to Back. This pushes a selected object behind all the others, which is perfect for background shapes, colours, and watermarks.
- Bring to Front. This does the opposite by pulling an object above everything else so it stays clearly visible.
- Topmost. This places an object at the very top layer of the entire stack at once, above all other items on the page.
- Lock and Unlock. Locking an object freezes it in place so you cannot drag it by mistake. Unlocking frees it again when you are ready to edit. I always lock my background images before I start adding text on top of them.
Beyond daily editing, InPage lets you control how the whole program behaves through the Preferences command. Setting these correctly once will make every future project run more smoothly.
Here are the settings I always check before starting serious work:
- Application Command. These are program-wide preferences that affect InPage as a whole, no matter which file you open. You set them once and they stay in place.
- Document Command. The Preferences and Document option controls settings for the current file only, such as how its layout behaves, without changing the rest of the program.
- Auto Save. Turn this on so the software saves your work automatically at set intervals. Honestly, this feature has rescued my files more than once during sudden power cuts in the middle of a deadline.
- Changing the Measurement Scale. You can switch your ruler units between inches, centimetres, millimetres, and points. I always pick whichever unit matches the press or the client’s requirement, so my measurements never get confusing.
- Paste Board Size and Ruler. The paste board is the empty working area around your page where you can park objects for later use. You can adjust its size to give yourself more room, and you can also hide or unhide the ruler to suit your screen and your task.
- Zoom Setting for New Files. This sets the default zoom level every time you open a fresh document, so you are not forced to adjust the view manually each time.
- Default Setting Option. If your settings ever get messed up, this option restores InPage to its original, correct values. I tell every beginner to treat it as a safe reset button whenever something feels wrong.
Taking five minutes to set these preferences feels boring at first, but it removes small annoyances that would otherwise slow you down all day long.
A few extra features make your daily work much smoother. In my experience, these small habits are exactly what separate slow users from fast, confident ones:
- The Right-Click Floating Menu. Right-clicking anywhere on your page opens a floating menu with common commands and a quick zoom setting, so you do not have to travel up to the top bar every single time.
- Drag and Drop Text. You can select a piece of text and simply drag it to a new spot with your mouse. For short moves, this is faster and more natural than using cut and paste.
- Deleting Pages. When a page is no longer needed, you can remove it cleanly so your document stays tidy and correctly ordered from start to finish.
- Inserting Page Numbers. InPage can add automatic page numbers that update on their own as you add or remove pages. This is essential for books, reports, and any long document where manual numbering would be a nightmare.
- Choosing Your Keyboard Layout. Finally, choose the keyboard layout that suits you best. The phonetic layout lets you type Urdu using English-sounding keys, while the InPage layout follows the traditional key positions. New learners almost always find the phonetic option the easiest place to begin.
In the next 9th module we will be learning all about the: Format Menu in InPage