# Tips for Formatting Text

To give you the best experience possible when editing your web pages, we've compiled a few tips to help you be successful.



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**Customize the CSS**

If you are using the editor for web pages on the RescueGroups.org Website Service, you may want to consider customizing your stylesheet (CSS). Instead of changing the font face and font size on each page, we can help you customize your stylesheet so that you can make changes globally to all of your pages easily. Contact our support team if you need help on this topic. 

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# How to align text

**Text Alignment**

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To adjust the text alignment: don't use the spacebar, it adds extra HTML code and makes the page unstable.  
Instead, select the text you want to align, highlight the text with your cursor and select one of the text **Justify/Align icons** in the second row.

# How to add line breaks

**Line Breaks**

To keep paragraph lines together, hold down the **shift key** and **enter/return key**.

That action adds a line break tag <br/> and not a paragraph tag <p> which has more space between the lines.

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How to copy and paste text


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We strongly recommend that you do not directly copy and paste into the editor (for example, by using Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V). It may seem to work, but often causes issues after saving the content, that can make your page unpredictable, unstable or load slowly. Please use one of the following methods instead.

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**Paste in from Word**

If pasting in your descriptions from an outside source, such as an email or Microsoft Word, and you would like to preserve as much formatting as possible, you could try the **Paste in from Word** tool built into the editor. The **Paste in from Word** button is on the editor's toolbar, and looks like a briefcase with a W on it. That should remove most of the unwanted formatting or code while leaving the basic formatting in tact.

**Paste in as Plain Text**

If that doesn't resolve your issues or if you do not want formatting at all, use the **Paste in as Plain Text** button the editor's toolbar to paste it in with NO formatting. This icon looks like a briefcase with a notepad on it.

**Previously pasted content causing issues?**

If you have added content to the editor which is not displaying, or is causing odd formatting issues that you want to get rid of it, use the following steps:


1. Edit the pet.
2. In the editor, click the **Select All** button on the editor's toolbar.  
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3. Right click the selected text and click Copy (or Ctrl+C on a PC, Command+C on a Mac) to copy the selected text.
4. Click the **Paste as Plain Text** button on the editor's toolbar.
5. In the **Paste as Plain Text** dialog that pops up, paste in the copied text.
6. Click Insert at the bottom of the **Paste as Plain Text** dialog to overwrite the selected text with the plain text.
7. Save the pet.

# How to remove font styles

Once you've copied and pasted to the editor, you can then reformat the text styles, bold, font size, etc.

* **Edit** the content
* **Select** your text
* Click the **eraser icon** on the Editor.

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If that does not work you may want to try:

* **Edit** the content
* Put your **cursor in the editor**
* **Select all** of the content on the page [ Ctrl+A on a PC, Command+A on a Mac ]
* **Copy** to clipboard [ Ctrl+C on a PC, Command+C on a Mac ]
* Click the **Paste from Word button** in the editor's toolbar  
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* **Paste** the content into the dialog box that opens [ Ctrl+V on a PC, Command+V on a Mac ]
* Click **insert**

This should paste the content back without formatting, yet keeps the links intact.