Inserting Text 

Use

You use the PC and HTML editors to enter and format texts and fields within mail forms. This includes:

·        Entering, deleting, selecting, cutting, and copying texts

In the HTML editor, these functions are performed in the HTML format. You can create mail forms in a WYSIWYG editor. The HTML code is automatically generated and displayed on the Sources tab page.

·        Assigning paragraph and character formats. For a list of the available formats you use the list boxes Paragraph formats and Character formats.

·        Including, changing, and deleting attributes

·        Creating links with the Insert URL icon and tracking of URLs visited by business partners

·        Inserting graphics from the Insert Graphics icon or from the mail form structure tree (HTML editor only)

Attributes are displayed with a gray background in the PC Editor and in text boxes in the HTML Editor.

Activities

You use the PC or HTML editor to enter new text. The position of this text on the form is determined by the predecessor node.

·        To create a text node, call the context menu for that node in the tree structure that is to contain the text and then choose Create  ® Text.

·        Enter a unique name for the node and a node description (for example, letter).

·        Enter your text in the editor either

¡        directly in the inplace version of the editor, or

¡        by choosing Text editor to go to the fullscreen mode of the editor. If, after entering the text, you use the green arrow (F3) to leave the fullscreen editor, the system transfers the text into the inplace version.

·        For the PC editor, enter attributes on the box and shading for the text as required in a subscreen.

The system displays the node in the tree structure, including its name and description.

·        Using the HTML editor, you can easily format the text in the Design mode. To format the mail form attribute perform the following steps:

¡        Format the text as bold for example and insert the attribute. Both text and attribute are displayed in bold as follows:

Dear Mr.  Smith,

¡        Enter the text, insert the attribute and format both. In this case, only the text appears in bold as follows:

Dear Mr.  Smith,

¡        The background color can be applied to only selected text and the space between text lines is not formatted.