Messenger: Basic and Advanced Editor

Scope

List of tools in Basic Editor/Advanced Editor.

Basic Editor

• Print – This allows you to print out the contents of the message.

• Spellcheck – This automatically highlights incorrect spellings and provides corrections.

• Undo – This reverses your last action(s).

• Redo – This reverses your last Undo(s).

• Image Manager – This allows you to upload and insert images.

• Horizontal Rule – This adds a horizontal line to divide your message.

• Insert Date – This inserts the Date token into your message.

• Insert Time – This inserts the Time token into your message.

• Paragraph Style – This allows you to change how your paragraphs appear in the message.

  • Normal

  • Heading 1-6

  • Directory List

  • Menu List

  • Formatted

  • Address

• Font Name – This allows you to change the type of font you are using.

  • Arial

  • Courier New

  • Georgia

  • MS Sans Serif​

  • Segoe UI

  • Tahoma

  • Times New Roman

  • Verdana

• Real font size – This changes the size of your text.

• Bold/Italics/Underline/Strikethrough – This generates the selected formatting for your text.

• Align Left/Align Centre/Align Right/Justify/Remove alignment – This organises your paragraphs based on the selected alignment.

• Numbered List – This creates a list organised by numbers.

• Bullet List – This creates a list organised by bullet points.

• Foreground Colour – This changes the colour of the text.

• Background Colour – This changes the colour of the background.

• Toggle Full Screen Mode – This maximises the text box to cover the entire window.

• Insert Table – This allows you to add a table into your message with multiple rows and columns. Normally only available in Advanced Editor, the Xpressions version of Basic Editor also has it.

  • Table Wizard – This allows you to make changes to the table once insert e.g., adding or removing rows/columns.

• Insert Fields – This provides a list of tokens that can be inserted into your message. Read our guide for further information: Messenger: Tokens (Merge Fields).

Advanced Editor

• Print – This allows you to print out the contents of the message.

• Spellcheck – This automatically highlights incorrect spellings and provides corrections.

• Find and Replace – This allows you to search for a word or phrase and replace it with another automatically.

• Cut – This deletes the selected text to insert a copy of it elsewhere.

• Copy – This copies the selected text to insert a copy of it elsewhere.

• Paste – This inserts text that has been cut or copied.

• Paste Options – This provides additional ways to Paste your cut/copied text.

  • Paste

  • Paste from Word

  • Paste from Word, strip font

  • Paste Plain Text

  • Paste as Html

  • Paste Html

• Undo – This reverses your last action(s).

• Redo – This reverses your last Undo(s).

• Image Manager – This allows you to upload and insert images.

• Document Manager – This allows you to upload and insert documents directly into your email.

• Template Manager – This allows you to upload and insert a HTML file with a template for your email or letter.

• Hyperlink Manager – This allows you to create hyperlinks in your email or Xpression.

• Remove Link – This deletes the hyperlink you selected in the text.

• Superscript – This makes the selected text a smaller size and moves it above another word or letter.

• Subscript – This makes the selected text a smaller size and moves it below another word or letter.

• New Paragraph – This starts a new row.

• Insert Groupbox – This inserts a box into the message where you can enter a message, like a text box.

• Horizontal Rule – This adds a horizontal line to divide your message.

• Insert Date – This inserts the Date token into your message.

• Insert Time – This inserts the Time token into your message.

• Paragraph Style – This allows you to change how your paragraphs appear in the message.

  • Normal

  • Heading 1-6

  • Directory List

  • Menu List

  • Formatted

  • Address

• Font Name – This allows you to change the type of font you are using.

  • Arial

  • Courier New

  • Georgia

  • MS Sans Serif​

  • Segoe UI

  • Tahoma

  • Times New Roman

  • Verdana

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• Real font size – This changes the size of your text.

• Select All – This highlights all the text in the message.

• Bold/Italics/Underline/Strikethrough – This generates the selected formatting for your text.

• Align Left/Align Centre/Align Right/Justify/Remove alignment – This organises your paragraphs based on the selected alignment.

• Indent – This starts the line/block of text further from the margin.

• Outdent – This starts the line/block of text closer to the margin.

• Numbered List – This creates a list organised by numbers.

• Bullet List – This creates a list organised by bullet points.

• Show/Hide Border – This shows/hides the margin around the contents of the message.

• Foreground Colour – This changes the colour of the text.

• Background Colour – This changes the colour of the background.

• Format Stripper – This removes any formatting that has been used in the message.

• Insert Symbol – This allows you to insert several symbols into your message.

• Insert Table – This allows you to add a table into your message with multiple rows and columns.

  • Table Wizard – This allows you to make changes to the table once insert e.g., adding or removing rows/columns.

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• Insert Code Snippet > Email Signature – This inserts a default template for an email (or letter) signature.

• Convert to lower case – This changes the highlighted text to lower case.

• Convert to upper case – This changes the highlighted text to upper case.

• Zoom - This allows you to zoom in and out within the text box to better see what you have written.

• Toggle Full Screen Mode – This maximises the text box to cover the entire window.

• Insert Fields – This provides a list of tokens that can be inserted into your message. Read our guide for further information: Messenger: Tokens (Merge Fields).

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