U.S. Pat. No. 5,842,170, to Daberko, Davis, and Bridgewater (Nov. 24, 1998), titled "Method of Editing in a Hand Held Recorder", focuses on editing messages utilizing a hand-held recorder. It teaches how to insert a second message segment within another message. This allows a user to playback the original message with the inserted message segment, i.e., a composite message. The user's options are limited because they must listen to the composite message; the user does not have the option of selecting whether the user wants to listen to just the inserted message or not.