010 Editor Manual - Introduction to Editing

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What is 010 Editor?
Getting Started with 010 Editor
Using 010 Editor - Basic Editing
Using 010 Editor - Advanced Editing
Using 010 Editor - Tools
Using 010 Editor - Syntax
Using 010 Editor - Templates and Scripts
Using 010 Editor - The Repository
Menu Reference
Options Reference
Buying 010 Editor
Getting Support
License Agreement
Release Notes

Introduction to Editing

010 Editor is a powerful editor for text and binary files. This section describes the basic methods used to edit files. Typically, editing is performed by opening a file, applying changes, and then saving the changes to the disk. To see how to load files into the editor click on:

Opening Files

To begin editing the files see either:

To learn how to use the clipboard to copy and paste data see:

Using the Clipboard

The editor can be configured to display data in a number of formats. For more information see:

Using Edit As

Finally, to save files see:

Saving Files

A number of other ways exist to edit files. See Using the Inspector for a method of interpreting binary data as a number of different data types. For a more powerful way of editing files see Introduction to Templates and Scripts.

010 Editor can also be used to edit hard drives and processes. See the Editing Drives or Editing Processes help topics for more information.

This is the manual for 010 Editor, a professional hex editor and text editor. Use 010 Editor to edit the individual bytes of any binary file, hard drive, or process on your machine. 010 Editor contains a whole host of powerful analysis and editing tools, plus Binary Templates technology that allows any binary format to be understood.