Define abbreviations and acronyms, Set copy and paste preferences – Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 User Manual
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Define abbreviations and acronyms
HTML provides tags that let you define the abbreviations and acronyms you use in your page for search engines, spell
checkers, language translation programs, or speech synthesizers. For example, you might want to specify that the
abbreviation ME in your page stands for mechanical engineer, or the acronym WHO stands for World Health
Organization.
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Select the abbreviation or acronym in the text of your page.
2
Select Insert > HTML > Text Objects > Abbreviation, or Insert > HTML > Text Objects > Acronym.
3
Enter the full text of the acronym or abbreviation.
4
Enter the language, such as en for English, de for German, or it for Italian.
Set copy and paste preferences
You can set special paste preferences as default options when using Edit > Paste to paste text from other applications.
For example, if you always want to paste text as text only, or text with basic formatting, you can set the default option
in the Copy/Paste Preferences dialog box.
Note: When you paste text into a Dreamweaver document, you can use either the Paste or the Paste Special command. The
Paste Special command lets you specify the format of pasted text in different ways. For example, if you wanted to paste text
from a formatted Microsoft Word document into your Dreamweaver document, but wanted to strip out all of the
formatting so that you could apply your own CSS style sheet to the pasted text, you could select the text in Word, copy it to
your Clipboard, and use the Paste Special command to select the option that lets you paste text only.
Note: Preferences set in the Copy/Paste Preferences dialog box apply only to material pasted into Design view.
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Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Dreamweaver Preferences (Macintosh).
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Click the Copy/Paste category.
3
Set the following options and click OK.
Text Only
Lets you paste unformatted text. If the original text is formatted, all formatting, including line breaks and
paragraphs, will be removed.
Text With Structure
Lets you paste text that retains structure, but does not retain basic formatting. For example, you
can paste text and retain the structure of paragraphs, lists, and tables, without retaining bold, italics, and other
formatting.
Text With Structure Plus Basic Formatting
Lets you paste both structured and simple HTML-formatted text (e.g.,
paragraphs and tables, as well as text formatted with the b, i, u, strong, em, hr, abbr, or acronym tag).
Text With Structure Plus Full Formatting
Lets you paste text that retains all structure, HTML formatting, and CSS
styles.
Note: The Full Formatting option cannot retain CSS styles that come from an external style sheet, nor can it retain styles
if the application from which you are pasting does not retain styles upon pasting to the Clipboard.
Retain Line Breaks
Lets you keep line breaks in pasted text. This option is disabled if you have selected Text Only.
Clean Up Word Paragraph Spacing
Select this option if you selected Text With Structure or Text With Structure Plus
Basic Formatting, and want to eliminate extra space between paragraphs when you paste your text.
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