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The Edit Menu is customized to either the active Spreadsheet View or Diagram View, as shown in Figure 2-86. When the Spreadsheet View is active, the Diagram View menu is not available.

Figure 2-86. Alternative Edit Menus for Active Spreadsheet and Diagram Views

2.7.1 Undoing an Edit Action

The Edit>Undo option will undo up to the last 30 actions in either the Spreadsheet View or Diagram View. If the status of a network item is changed in the spreadsheet (i.e., a branch taken out of ser-vice), the change is reflected in the Diagram View if that specific element is drawn. When Edit>Undo is selected in the Spreadsheet View, the change is automatically reflected in the Dia-gram View as well.

If a bus is deleted from the Diagram View with Bind Items selected, both the diagram item and the underlying network bus is deleted. If Edit>Undo is then executed, both the diagram item and the network bus are restored.

2.7.2 Copying and Pasting in the Spreadsheet View

Data can be copied and pasted from cell to cell, column to column and row to row in the Spread-sheet View. Data may also be copied and pasted to other applications.

Between Cells

Data can be copied and pasted between cells using the standard <Ctrl+C>, <Ctrl+V> keystrokes, or by selecting Edit>Copy and Edit>Paste from the Main Menu.

Between Rows

All or some of the cells in a row can be copied to another row on the same spreadsheet tab. To do this, select the row(s) to copy by clicking in the row header column(s). The <Shift>+left-mouse-click and <Ctrl>+left-mouse-click can be used to select multiple rows. Once the row(s) are highlighted copy the data using either the standard keystrokes <Ctrl+C> or the Edit>Copy function. Click on the row(s) where the data is to be placed and use either the standard <Ctrl+V> keystroke or the Edit>Paste function.

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Bus numbers and other identifiers are not copied as this would result in duplicate data items in the network. These identifiers will automatically adjust to the next available value when pasted.

Copy/Paste Spreadsheet Data to Another Application

It is possible to copy and paste data from the spreadsheet into another application, such as MS Excel. Simply select the cells to be copied, copy the data to the clipboard using <Ctrl+C> or by selecting Edit>Copy from the Main Menu. Activate the application to which the data will be pasted and use the paste function in that application to paste the spreadsheet data contained in the clipboard.

Copy/Paste of Diagram Items

All cutting, copying and pasting of diagram items in a Diagram View is done from the application diagram clipboard. Diagram items placed on the application diagram clipboard may only be used in other Diagram Views within the same invocation of PSS/E. To copy diagrams between applications, such as copying a diagram from PSS/E to MS Word, the system clipboard needs to be used. A Dia-gram View can be copied to the system clipboard by selecting Edit>Copy to clipboard.

Select the diagram items to be copied before selecting Edit>Copy to clipboard. To paste the clip-board contents to another application, use the paste function in that application. To paste the clipboard contents to a Diagram View, select Edit>Paste or right-click on the Diagram View and select Paste.

2.7.3 Finding Items in the Spreadsheet

Select Edit>Find... to display the Find dialog used to find a particular value in a selected column.

Select Edit>Find Again to search a selected column for the value entered during the last Find oper-ation. It will only find the first match. It cannot be used to iterate through matching items in the column. To iterate through matching items in the column, click the Find Next button in the Find dialog to find successive items.

The Find and Find Again dialogs can also be opened by selecting a column and right-clicking on the column header. See Section 2.4.3.1 and Figure 2-19.

2.7.4 Replacing Items in the Spreadsheet

Select Edit>Replace... to display the Replace dialog used to replace a particular matching item, or replace all matching items.

2.7.5 Freezing and Unfreezing Columns

Some data categories have a considerable number of columns. In order to easily facilitate exami-nation and editing of data in the right-most columns, you can freeze selected columns. After selecting the columns to freeze or unfreeze, select Edit>Freeze Columns or Edit>Unfreeze Columns as shown in Figure 2-26.

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Figure 2-87. Program Preferences Dialog

The dialog window contains several groups of options:

Output options: Allows you to choose whether to create a new tab for each output report, and to specify the maximum number of lines to display.

Auto-Save option: Allows for the automatic saving of the currently open power flow case and how often the case is to be saved. The option to save the case under its current name or to save it to a temporary file named PsseTempSave.sav is also provided.

Auto bus and equipment numbering: When creating a one-line diagram from scratch, with the Bind option on (see Section 2.9.5), the addition of network items into the Diagram View will populate the Spreadsheet View with data as you build a new network (see Section 3.7). Without the Bind option selected, the network items added will belong to only the Diagram View. In either case, if the option to Automatically number buses, lines, and equipment is enabled, the program will automatically number the buses as they are added.

The initial bus number and the increments by which subsequent buses are numbered may be specified in the fields provided.

Diagram interactions:

If the Upon changing IDs, update all open diagrams option is enabled, then when IDs in the spreadsheet are changed, the IDs in the Diagram View will automatically be updated.

If the Allow "single click" deletion of a bus and all its equipment option is enabled, then a selected bus on the diagram may be deleted, along with all its equipment, by either using the <Delete> key or selecting Delete from the right-click menu. Otherwise these options are not available.

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If the Allow drag panning of the diagram option is enabled, then the "select" mouse pointer will turn to Pan mode when the left-mouse-button is clicked on the diagram, held down and dragged. Otherwise, the default behavior of holding down and dragging the "select" pointer is to form a selection box around a portion of the diagram.

If the Zoom GOUT/GEXM to extents option is enabled, then a bus is displayed in the diagram via the GOUT/GEXM command will fill the entire diagram viewing area.

If the Only "Grow" in-service items option is enabled, then only those items currently in-service will be drawn during a Grow operation.

If the Only "Grow" items in current bus subsystem option is enabled, then only those items in the current bus subsystem will be drawn during a Grow operation.

If the Use Bus Location file to "Grow" items option is enabled and a Bus Location file has been opened, then any Grow or Auto-Draw operations will use the Bus Location file when placing buses on the diagram.

The Default Bind mode setting indicates the default setting for whether diagram items are to be bound to network items or not bound.

Configuration file text editor: This field is used to select a text editor that can be launched wherever an input configuration text file is specified. The file selector can be used to browse for a *.exe file that is capable of editing a text file.