Text editing in CW
I saw somewhere that Help is run by a different company than CW. I wish we had the text editing capabilities on CW that we do on Help posts.
I often make typos or don't initially word things well, but I don't realize until I read them back. Plus I get really wordy, so I need the ability to edit out the unimportant stuff. I'm handicapped with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which causes brain fog that makes it hard for me to communicate as clearly as I used to before I got sick.
Usually I compensate by typing stuff in Word Pad first, make corrections, then copy and paste. Unfortunately, most places where you can write text in CW, don't allow copying, cutting or pasting. When you're typing on CW, often you can't to see what you're typing beyond a certain point, so you don't know what it looks like. This is very frustrating to me.
I noticed yesterday, CW evidently reduced the number of characters allowed for photo captions. This was not announced, so some of the text that was already there, which must have exceeded the "new" limit, just disappeared.
Part of my "About Me" had disappeared today. I've always written it in Word Pad, then copied & pasted into my profile since it's kind of long. I edited it to have fewer characters, but when I pasted it into my profile, it lost the paragraph spacing. The only way to get the spacing back seems to be to type the whole thing directly into "About Me", but then I can't see what I'm typing beyond the first few lines. I re-typed it four times, and still have a typo in it, but I decided it was better to leave it that way, than have the formatting messed up.
Pls consider giving us text editing capabilities and/or at least changing preview capabilities in CW, because it sure would help ppl like me.
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Thanks for your feedback. I've passed this along to our teams. For now, it can help to use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move your cursor back and forth over the text to help you read over what you've already typed.
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I've had the same issue and I do hope they change the formatting option for editing our profiles, its annoying that you cant see what you've typed after a paragraph or be able to correct typos
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WinterLuvR, it seems that CW has restored our ability to cut-and-paste text in the About Me section of our profiles. I wish we had been told that it had been changed back to the way it was before.
I revised mine yesterday and had no problem cutting-and-pasting. The paragraph spacing displayed correctly as I had written it, so that also has been fixed. The character limit also has either been lengthened or removed, because even though my About Me is now slightly longer than before, all of it is displaying correctly.
Here are the steps I use to cut-and-paste About Me text:
1) Compose in Wordpad
2) Highlight all text, then click on copy
3) Click on Edit in Profile and set cursor in Edit box
4) Use Ctrl V to paste
If your text is longer than the Edit window, you won't be able to see all of it when you paste it, but once you've done that and saved it, the full text should all be displayed in your Profile.
Unfortunately, this is still the only text input area that I'm aware of in CW, where cut-and-paste can be used. When writing Inbox replies or composing new messages, you can cut text, but you can't paste it back, which makes no sense :-( .
At least with Profile comments, if you make a typo or don't like how the comment reads, you can always delete it, whether it's on your Profile or someone else's. I usually leave the original comment up as a guide so I can see how I want to edit it, then go ahead and write/post the corrected one. Once I'm satisfied with it, I delete the original.
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This is good to know thnx LuckIs A Lady for sharing all this info!
The IMMORTAL One only problem with the adding comment is that it doesn't stay up past 30 days
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