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Text and special characters

The vast majority of templates for personalized customer communications contain, of course, text. While the most common text element is a <p> or paragraph, other elements such as Headings (<h1> through <h6>) are also considered text elements. Text elements can be present within other types of elements such as table cells (<td>), boxes (<div>), etc.

Adding text

To add text, simply type in the workspace in the middle.

  • Press Enter to insert a new paragraph.
  • Press Shift+Enter to insert a line break.

Alternatively, copy-paste text into a template, or use the Insert Lorem Ipsum toolbar button to insert dummy text.

Text that precedes or follows the value of a data field can be added by the Text Script Wizard; see Using the Text Script Wizard.

Note: it is not possible to open a Word file in the Designer. When you copy text from a Word document, however, basic style characteristics travel with the content to PrintShop Mail ConnectDesigner. Formatting options like bold, italic and formats like Heading 1, Heading 2 are maintained.

Adding special characters

To add special characters:

  1. Position the cursor where the character should be inserted.
  2. On the Insert menu, point to Special Characters click Symbols, Dashes and Spaces, Arrows, or Geometric Shapes, and click one of the available special characters.

Adding page numbers

Page numbers can only be used in the Print context. See Page numbers.

HTML element: p, h, li and others

When adding elements, such as text, images or a table, to the content of a template, you are actually constructing an HTML file; see Editing HTML.

In HTML text can be contained in many different elements: paragraphs, span elements, line items and table cells, for example.

The HTML tag of a paragraph is <p>. The paragraph should be followed by a closing tag: </p>.

A line break looks like this in HTML: <br>.

Formatting text

Text can be styled, colored, centered, indented etc. It can even be displayed so that it reads from right to left. See Styling text and paragraphs.

In all templates you can use the fonts that are provided with the Designer, as well as imported fonts; see Fonts.