Find/Change w/Multiple items on clipboard/cursor

WinXP, IDCS3 5.0.2
Is it possible to find/change with the change to contents of clipboard when multiple items are loaded to cursor (change to = ^c) but w/1,2 or 3 or someother code to tell it which loaded cursor item to change to??
thanks
sandy

A loaded cursor is not the clipboard. Replacing with ^c gets you the
contents of the clipboard, not the contents of a loaded cursor. There is
only one clipboard, so no matter how much text you copy, whatever you
last copied is what you're going to get with ^c. No choices.
What is it you want to Find/Replace? Maybe there's some other way to
accomplish it.
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com

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