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: To quickly select all text, you can press Ctrl+A.
| • | Change to Lowercase - Changes the selected text to all lowercase. |
| • | Change to Uppercase - Changes the selected text to all uppercase. |
| • | Change <>& to Entities - Changes special HTML characters to their entity references. This is useful when converting text to HTML when you want to escape special HTML characters so that the actual characters will display. |
| • | Remove Extra Blank Lines - Combine multiple adjacent blank lines into a single blank line. |
| • | Remove 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. |
| • | Remove Tags - Removes HTML and HTML like tags |
| • | End Lines in <br> - Adds <br> or <br /> to the end of the selected lines. This is useful when converting text to HTML when you want to preserve certain line breaks. |
| • | Enclose Lines in <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. |
| • | Enclose Lines in <p> - Encloses each of the selected lines in <p> and </p>. This is useful when converting text to HTML when you want each line to represent a paragraph. |
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.
More sophisticated text processing functions are available using the Tools.