Text editor
The text editor is an important part of each CommSy work space and appears whenever you edit a description in material entries or tasks. The editor is capable of comprehensive formatting settings. Furthermore, you can add images, charts, and external links to your text, to name but a few. While editing the text and scrolling down, the editor toolbar remains at its position, making it easier to edit even long texts.
![Screenshot: text editor bar](/21269669/text-editor-1-56cae5e1d7fb60e31c166fd4759d59380e79b9d9.jpeg)
1. Text options
You can use the following commands to edit your text quickly and safe.
1. Cut (Ctrl + X): Cut the marked text in order to add it to your clipboard and to paste it somewhere else.
2. Copy (Ctrl + C): Copy the marked text in order to add it to your clipboard and to paste it somewhere else
3. Paste (Ctrl + V): Add the text from your clipbord that you copied or cut earlier to your current position in the text editor.
4. Paste from Word: This function can be used to insert texts directly from Word.
5. Undo (Ctrl + Z): Use this in order to undo an formatting action.
6. Restore (Ctrl + Y): Use this in order to rewind and undo command.
Tip: Alternatively, you can use the corresponding buttons in the text editor toolbar. |
![Screenshot: text editor bar](/21269723/text-editor-2-a97a56f4a86e20b51bed619de271d400167433ea.jpeg)
2. Text formatting
The buttons reflect various formatting options (Img. 2).
Restore (Ctrl + Y): If you accidently deleted your text, you can restore it this way.
1. Paragraph format: Here you can select different formatting styles, for example to highlight headlines.
2. Font: Select a suitable font here.
3. Font size: The font size can be specified in small steps.
4. Text and background colours: You can mark important passages in various text and/or background colours. Select “Reset formatting” to reactivate the default formatting style.
5. Furthermore, you can hightlight text passages in bold (Ctrl + B), italics (Ctrl + I) or as strikethrough text.
Enumeration and bullet lists can be created by clicking the corresponding buttons in the tool bar. Using the tabluator key indents the active paragraph by one step.
![Screenshot: text editor bar](/21269453/text-editor-3-f4d311fb36113256c78f967dd7e388e253908f92.jpeg)
In addition, the following text formatting can still be done with the editor:
6. Alignment of the text (left-aligned, central, right-aligned, justified).
7. Insert separator lines
8. Insert/remove numbered list
9. Bullet lists
10. Increase or decrease indentation with these icons
3. Creating and editing a link
One of the key features of the text editor, embedding external links, can be accessed by clicking the paper clip symbol.
A window will pop up in which you can create a link.
![Screenshot: link form](/21270139/text-editor-4-1e85aff6b3ad65cfd280e527724b24513bf7aa10.jpeg)
Insert the needed URL code here. In advance, please mark the text string which will be transformed into a hyperlink. Alternatively you can insert a description to the link in the “Display text” field.
In a last step, please choose in which format the linked page will open (Img. 4).
![Screenshot: Link with 'Zielseite' dropdown menu](/21269570/text-editor-5-2ea419f271f2447d1eb4dedff76b17d6a530aa90.jpeg)
The most important options are:
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<Frame> = The target page will open in your active browser tab, overwriting the current tab.
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<Pop-up Fenster> = The target page will open in a new browser tab.
4. Create a table
With CommSy you can also create tables in the text editor. To do this, click on the table icon in the text editor.
Then a window opens (Fig. 5). There you can make all relevant settings.
First, define the number of columns and rows.
Optionally, you can activate a header line.
You can also choose between left, right and centered alignment.
![Screenshot: Tables properties menu](/21269552/text-editor-6-1fb65448b6e9e982d5c55a513369851928cc576c.jpeg)
Click on “OK” for creating the table. Right-click on the table field to open the following setting options (Fig. 6):
- Insert/connect/divide cells
- Insert/connect/remove rows
- Insert/delete columns
- Edit table properties
(1) You can also drag the table larger or smaller using the dots (see Fig. 6).
Tip: Use the editor functions here as well to make the table look appealing. Practice creating tables and try out all the functions. |
![Screenshot: editing table](/21269994/text-editor-7-cc02924327057771901b3650147c1e71c32ed459.jpeg)
5. Embedding media
Note: To insert media, please see our detailed tutorial concerning embedding images, videos, and other data files. |
6. Etherpad
The etherpad, an alternative text editor implemented in CommSy, allows several members to edit a text collaboratively at the same time. Please see our tutorial for further information.