Adding text in Dreamweaver

Hi, my name is Dan and in this video we're gonna look at  adding text to Dreamweaver. Now it's kind of weird, I guess, having this  so late in the piece  'cause we've been adding text as we're going along, right? And there hasn't been any problems. Now, one of the reasons might be is  that I've given you some text that has been nice and clean. And what I mean by that is, say that I copy  and paste text from an email or from a Word document. There can be problems with Dreamweaver, okay?

Because what it does is when you do a copy from something,  say like Word and I copy all of this text,  can you see it's got some styling. It's blue, it's bold, it's actually set up as a heading in,  um, word. And if I copy it and paste it straight into  Dreamweaver, watch this. If I paste him there, okay, I click  inside this p Can you see it here? It's brought it in and it's put it as a H one  'cause it guessed it from Word Okay, as a heading one. And it's big, it's bold.

Okay? So quite often you don't want to bring  through the styling from either. It can bring in some really crazy styling. That was a real basic one. Just to show you. It's wrapped it up in a p uh, H one tag,  but it can bring in all sorts of junk.

You do not need to get round that. And one of two ways is what I tend  to do is I use either text, edit, or notepad. So text edit on a Mac or notepad on a pc,  and you can kind of cut the text down  to what's called plain old text. There it is there. Um, it's uh, should me show you about,  it says Make Plain Text and,  and it removes all the formatting  and becomes really basic, just plain old,  easy to import text. The other way is I'm gonna undo this from here.

Go to edit past special. So I've copied it from Word already. I'm gonna go to Past Special and  I've got these options in here. So I could bring in text only. I only trouble with text only is that it text only  but removes all the returns. So if you've got say, 10 paragraphs  and you go to Text only, it'll remove all this,  all the formatting, which is great,  which we wanna get rid of.

But we'll remove the spaces between paragraphs as well. So you gotta go back through and pull the returns  in, which is a real pain. So I don't like doing it this way. Um, so the best way is to clean it up in Mac. Remember use something called Text edit  and switch it to Plain Text. Now if you're using a PC, use Notepad, um, it's a,  you might have to go and find it.

It's installed on all Windows PCs  and it is a real basic text editor. And if you copy from Word, paste it into Notepad  and then copy and paste it back into Dreamweaver,  that's the quickest and easiest way to get text that is nice  and clean into Dreamweaver.