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Submitted by David_H on 2018/03/01 20:13

When the HTML pane keeps adding formatting or doing funky things I don't want it to do, is there a way to "remove formatting"? For instance I'm trying to add some bullets but it keeps insisting on indenting everything when I do that. I believe Pierre have the solution for this once before but I cannot find it. I've tried deleting everything and repasting it as text but that seems to be of no help.

When this happens I always look through every menu hoping to find something obvious, but never do.

Thanks

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Hi David,

For bold, etc, you can select the text and hit Ctrl + space bar

For bullets, you can cut the text and paste special > text

If you want bullets but don't like the indent style, this is set by the style sheet. See 4. Document Pane (which requires updating I know...

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Anything else ?

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

Hi Pierre, I don't think I explained myself well. I've edited my HTML area to format things the way I want. However what I find is that there are times when I paste text from other applications (paste special > text) that for some reason after that I can't format things the way I want. For instance I'll select the 3rd line down to add a bullet to it, but the top sentence keeps getting the bullet and everything gets indented, it's as if IQ sees what I copied and pasted as one single sentence even though it's actually a paragraph. I've also tried pasting it as HTML, Unicode etc.

I've even tried first pasting it into notepad and then IQ, but the resulting behavior is still the same. Yet if I type it out in IQ from scratch, no issues.

[quote=David_H]

For instance I'll select the 3rd line down to add a bullet to it, but the top sentence keeps getting the bullet and everything gets indented

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Hi David,

It seems that the editor is not seeing the lines as separate paragraphs, i.e. the 3 lines are treated as a single paragraph so bullet goes to the first line and indents the rest

You can delete the "soft" return at the end of each line and add a "hard" return instead to see if it fixes it.

I can reproduce it so I'll see if it can be optimized

HTH !

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

[quote=Pierre_Admin]

It seems that the editor is not seeing the lines as separate paragraphs, i.e. the 3 lines are treated as a single paragraph so bullet goes to the first line and indents the rest

You can delete the "soft" return at the end of each line and add a "hard" return instead to see if it fixes it.

I can reproduce it so I'll see if it can be optimized[/quote]

Yep, that fixed it. Although what is strange is that as I spaced my way around before deleting the soft returns, everything appeared formatted correctly. I would have expected to have it jump between lines like it was all a single paragraph but it didn't.

Fixed in the next version:

Fixed: HTML pane: Paste text containing carriage returns were not translated correctly to HTML (paste as text)

Thanks for reporting !

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

v108Pre3 was updated with this fix.

Also, minor improvement to the new column filter by selection, which now keeps the same items selected after applying the filter

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer