Selected Text Processing
(All Editions)

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Certain text processing functions can be performed on any text based document by selecting text in the editor and then choosing a menu option from the Selection submenu of the editor pop-up menu. Some of the functions are listed below.

NOTE: Functions under the Selection submenu, such as the ones below, affect only the selected text.

TIP: Press Ctrl+A to select all text. Press F4 to repeat the last text insertion or text selection/sort command.

Under the "Selection" Submenu

•Change All to References - Changes all selected characters to character references

•Change <>& to Entities - Changes special HTML characters to their character entity references. More specifically, changes '<' to <, '>' to >, and '&' to &. This is useful when converting text to HTML when you want to escape special HTML characters so that the actual characters will display.

•Change References to Chars - Convert character references to the characters they represent. (New v10.00)

•End Lines in - Adds or to the end of the selected lines. This is useful when converting text to HTML when you want to preserve certain line breaks.

Under the "Selection->Change Case" Submenu

•Capitalize - Capitalize first letter and lower other letters of each selected word. (New v10.00)

•Change to Lowercase - Changes the selected uppercase characters to lowercase.

•Change to Uppercase - Changes the selected lowercase characters to uppercase.

•Invert Case - Invert the case of the selected uppercase and lowercase characters. (New v10.00)

Under the "Selection->Enclose Lines" Submenu

•in <li> ... </li> - Encloses each of the selected lines in <li> and </li>. This is useful when converting text to HTML when you want each line to represent an item in a list.

•in ... - Encloses each of the selected lines in and . This is useful when converting text to HTML when you want each line to represent a paragraph.

•in a Custom Element - Asks which element name to use and then encloses each of the selected lines in the element's start and end tags. (New v9.00)

Under the "Selection->Remove" Submenu

•All Blank Lines - Remove all blank lines from the selected text.

•Double Line Breaks - Remove double line breaks by changing them to single lines breaks.

•Duplicate Nonempty Lines - Removes duplicate lines using a case-sensitive match. Blank lines are all preserved. (New v10.00)

•Extra Blank Lines - Combine multiple adjacent blank lines into a single blank line.

•Line Breaks - Removes line breaks in the selected text, replacing them with spaces. This is good for quickly combining multiple lines into a single line.

•Tags - Removes HTML and HTML like tags.

•Whitespace at Line Ends - Remove whitespace (tabs and spaces) from the end of each selected line.

•Whitespace Characters - Remove all whitespace characters in the selected text. (New v10.00)

Under the "Selection->Sort Lines" Submenu

•Case-Sensitive (A-Z)

•Case-Sensitive (Z-A)

•Case-Insensitive (A-Z)

•Case-Insensitive (Z-A)

Remember that to use the above functions, you must first select text in the editor and then choose the above menu option from the Selection submenu of the editor pop-up menu.