Undo If you would like to undo your last action(s) in an open project, select this option. It is possible to undo each step you have made since the opening or creating of a project in the current Merlin session. Merlin supports unlimited Undos.

Redo All changes that can be undone can also be redone. In combination with "undo" and "redo" you can try out different situations in Merlin without worrying about creating chaos in your project.

Cut The selected object (e.g an activity, a group, or a resource) is copied to the clipboard and cut out of the project. It is possible to insert the information into another section of the project, another project, or into another application. The previous contents of the clipboard are overwritten.

Copy The selected object (e.g an activity, a group, or a resource) is copied to the clipboard. It is possible to insert the information into another section of the project, another projects or into another application. The previous contents of the clipboard are overwritten.

Copy as Rich Text Unlike "Copy," where all the information is copied into the clipboard as pure text, the feature “Copy as Rich Text” includes all the available formatting information. This function is useful when the contents of the clipboard are to be inserted in an application, which accepts RTF formatted text (e.g. TextEdit, Apple Mail in HTML mode or MS Excel).

Paste When an object (e.g an activity, a group, or a resource) is stored on the clipboard, it can be pasted into the position where the cursor is currently located. The contents of the clipboard remain unmodified.

Paste Contents When the clipboard contains information regarding an activity, it can be important that only certain information is transferred when pasting. For this reason a dialogue is displayed that asks for the information that should be transferred.

Delete Deletes the selected object.

Select All All objects are selected in the area where the cursor is located.

Find This option places the cursor in the search field of the current main view. It is now possible to enter the key word to start your search. Consult Search to learn more.

Find Elements This option places the cursor in the search field of the Element view. It is now possible to enter the key word to start your search. Consult Search to learn more.

Indent This option indents the selected activity. If other sub-activities are contained, they will be automatically indented. Merlin checks after each action, if it is possible to increase the indent. If it cannot, this option is not carried out

Outdent This option outdents the selected activity. If other sub-activities are contained, they will be automatically outdented. Merlin checks after each action, if it is possible to outdent any further. If it cannot, this option is not carried out.

Collapse All To get an overview of all the groups and activities in the first level, select this option. The groups are now displayed as bars instead of brackets in the Gantt chart.

Expand All To view all the details in the groups and activities in your project, select this option. The groups are now expanded and displayed as brackets in the Gantt chart.

Hide All Assignments In Merlin, assignments are displayed in individual rows below the activities. To hide these assignment rows select this option.

Show All Assignments In Merlin, assignments are displayed in individual rows below the activities. To show these assignment rows, select this option.

Show Outline In the submenu you can select to which level of the outline you would like Merlin to expand your project.

Freeze Sort Order When the numbering in the # column does not correspond to the sorting by date (or other desired value), sort the view according to the desired column (e.g. Start) and then select this function. The numbering of the # column is restored according to the selected column and fixed as an active column. Only after this can the order of the activities be manually sorted in the Activity view.

Make Milestone To change an activity into a milestone, select this command.

Link Activities When at least two activities or groups are selected in the main view and they can be logically linked to each other, select from the submenu the type of link you would like to create for the selected activities.

Assignments In the submenu you will find all the resources contained in your project. When you have an activity selected, simply select this option and the resource in the submenu. The resource is added to (or removed from) the activity as an assignment.

Remove All Assignments All assignments allocated to the highlighted activities will be deleted.

Completion In the submenu you will find the percent values of completion, which can be assigned to any selected activity.

Resource Leveling Please consult the resource leveling section for more information.

Special Characters If you would like to enter special characters into a text field, it is possible to call up a palette of characters which can be easily added to the text field.