This problem is a nightmare, especially when training a new person to create our newsletters. Make one change (such as hitting the "backspace key" or adding or deleting a sentence), and the line spacing and/or text size in the entire email gets changed.

I consider this to be a "bug", not a wishlist item!

I always create my content in MS Word, (it is more efficient, and I can work on newsletter content over several days), then I copy and paste my final content onto a web page or email, before inserting photos. I was told by a WA rep that I should create my content in the email or page editor instead of doing a copy/paste from Word - but that is too cumbersome. And guess what - when I do create content in the email or page editor, the same problems happen.

When I prepare a newsletter I end up having to send myself 5 or 6 test emails so I can fix all the idiosyncrasies before it goes out to all contacts.

OK, and here is the final rub: Every time I save an email draft and go back later to finish and send it out, I find word spacing throughout the content is changed - words are randomly strung together and spaces between words have been eliminated. I sent "before" and "after" the save function examples to WA and was told they can't recreate the problem, and therefore it is a problem with the latest MS Word version (I am on MS Version 10 which has Word 13). Is this an issue others are having?

Merged

Should this be merged with the existing thread https://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/12871449-text-editing-enter-adds-2-blank-line-keep-select ?

In the HTML editor a few things are non-standard: (1) Control-B and Control-I should toggle Bold and Italic, (2) when text is selected and an operation is performed on it the text should stay selected so you can make additional operations to it.

Expanding on Paul's comment below:

The normal Windows convention is that Enter creates a <p> and Shift-Enter creates a <br>.

Can you just implement that, and get the text editor to accept our line and paragraph breaks instead of insisting on fantasizing its own? IOW don't end a <p> unless another <p> starts immediately, and don't ever toss in <br>s unless we type Shift-Enter.

Terminating paragraphs isn't critical. Most browsers work fine without any </p>s. But if you want to stick a </p> before every <p> except the first, that'd be fine.

Otherwise, the text editor needs to be a lot dumber about line and paragraphing spaces and just do what we tell it it.

When I select text to change its style (normal to a heading), it would be nice to see what it would look like when I hover over the new style. If not taht,, then at least leave the text selected so I can try a different style. Thank you.

<grumble>I hate to be grumpy about this glitch in an overall awesome text and web page editor.

But I have nothing else to do while waiting to receive another test email after seeing missing and extra blank lines in my carefully formatted e-blast, and having to go into HTML to fix them up.

It would be nice to have this fixed.</grumble>

Better email formatting. Need to add many more Mac friendly fonts.

Merged suggestions.

This is included in the wishlist item https://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/12871449-text-editing-enter-adds-2-blank-line-keep-select

I constantly have to reselect text to change it. If I select a portion of text and then change the size of the font, I have to reselect it again to change the type of font. Keep text selected until I choose to deselect it.

Walt, just want to let you know that we do receive and review all the comments.
Our website module development team is also notified, I hope they will have time to comment back here at some point.

It is an ongoing irritation to hit Enter in the middle of text and get two blank lines instead of one.

I needed to copy a board member's contact information to the bottom of an email I sent out to all of our members. It transferred with large spaces between each line of his contact information. There is no way to correct it to no space between the lines. We need to be able to adjust this the way it can be done in Outlook.

This has been highly problematic, especially in the email editing. It's very difficult to create a consistent well presented newsletter due to bugs in automatic formatting undoing your work constantly.

The automatic style changes are a daily irritation!!
The current fix I use for the blank line problem is to hold down the Shift key when returning, which sometimes makes the next line right below, and sometimes with an extra line which can at least be deleted.

Also, the 'Clear formatting' button simply does not work.

Most HTML editors have a 'Paragraph' style along with Header 1, 2, etc., which creates <p> tags instead of <br> with a carriage return. This would solve the first problem Walt points out.