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Create a new Text Block

A Text Block is a meaningful piece of text that can be reused for different purposes. A Text Block is usually one or two paragraphs long.

  1. Click the project and navigate to Content > Text Blocks.
  2. Click the folder with the document to contain a new Text Block and then click New Text Block in the New pane on the right.
    The New Text Block window appears.
  3. Enter a name for the Text Block and click OK.
    The name of the Text Block should be meaningful. For example, to add a new Text Block to a Welcome Letter that will contain information on the loyal customer club, assign the same name to the Text Block.
    The Text Block appears in the folder.
  4. To add text to the Text Block, click the Text Block and then click Edit in the View and Edit pane on the right.
    The Text Block Editor appears.
  5. Create the text. You can add Fields. To learn more about the editor's functionality, see Format the text in a document.

    • When you paste text with special characters from a different editor, such as Microsoft Word, or a Rich Text Block to a Text Block, the following rules apply:

      • Tab is replaced with a number of spaces.

      • Non-breaking space is replaced with a simple space.

      • Non-breaking hyphen is replaced with a simple hyphen.

  6. Save your changes.

    To see how the Text Block is going to look in the result document, see Test an object.