You use the PC editor to create and edit texts. These texts you can then print using forms (for example, form letters) or use for creating documents in the R/3 system (for example, orders and material texts).

The PC editor is entirely downward compatible. You can easily use any texts created with the line editor. The system converts the assigned styles and formats appropriately and provides them as before.

On your frontend, either WindowsNT 4.0 or Windows95 must be installed as 32-bit operating system. At present, other platforms are not supported.

You need several *.DLL and *.OCX files. When you upload these *.DLL and *.OCX files, the SAP GUI automatically installs this required component.

In a dialog window, you can determine whether to automatically update this component.

You can edit texts in the PC editor as you would edit documents in any current word processing system.

Among others, the PC editor provides the following functions:

• Cutting and pasting texts
• Directly assigning paragraph and character formats via pushbuttons in the application toolbar
• Displaying all applied paragraph and character formats WYSIWYG, for example, bold face, justified text, different font sizes
• Inserting special text structures (text elements, symbols, and commands)
• Integrated syntax check for the inserted commands to avoid input errors

The R/3 system automatically calls the PC editor in the corresponding application.

To switch to the line editor, in the PC editor choose Settings ® Editor mode.