Utility Menu

The Utility menu contains:

Replace
Choosing the Replace... command from the Utility menu allows you to replace a given search string with a replacement string within the current document, or globally over all documents in the editor.

Insert Export String
HTML.edit will automatically insert the current date (in one of three formats) or time (in two formats) into your HTML document when exporting your document to a text file. This is done by inserting a short code into your document using the Insert Export String command.

Place the insertion point into your document at the desired location and choose a date format (Short Date: ‘4/23/94’; Abbreviated Date: ‘Sat, Apr 23, 1994’; or Long Date: ‘Saturday, April 23, 1994’) or time format (Time: ‘2:00 PM’ or Long Time: ‘2:00:00 PM’) to insert the code used on export to substitute the current date or time.

Table Convert
Similar to the Insert Entity command, Table Convert uses a modifiable lookup table (see the Text Conversion Table, located on the Preferences card) to convert instances of characters that won't be displayed correctly over the Internet to a "safe" equivalent. For example, the Macintosh-only trademark symbol ™ can be translated to (tm).

Convert ¶ to <P>
Converts ASCII return characters to HTML <P> tags + returns within the current text selection. Useful for converting a lot of paragraph text to HTML paragraphs at once.

Unwrap Text
Often text from online sources has a return at the end of every line. To convert a selection of text into paragraphs, use this command.

Add/Strip LineFeeds
Adds or strips linefeed characters from the Header, Body and Footer text areas. While Macintosh documents use a return to delimit lines of text, a return + linefeed character combination is expected in documents used on some operating systems (like DOS or UNIX). The command senses whether any linefeed characters are in your text.

A return (CR) is ASCII #13, lineFeed (LF) is ASCII #10.

Default Text
Sets the text font, style and size of the current document to the default text as specified on the Preferences card. Text pasted into HTML.edit from other applications may inherit the formatting of its origin. Also, this command resets the document after using the Hilight HTML or other hilight commands.

Remove HTML
Removes most common HTML tags from the current text selection, including Anchors, Images, and tags in certain complex formats (such as lists).

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