Thanks Ann. What I would like to do is what's sometimes called a shuffle edit, and is what I believe was the feature the book was trying to describe but didn't work. It's a way to move a clip or group of contiguous clips from one place in the timeline to insert into another place in the timeline and to have the resulting gap automatically close up. I think the only solution, as the Option-drag function described doesn't work, is to use cut and paste insert.
Thanks again for taking the time for this conversation.
