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Part I
Laying the Groundwork in Dreamweaver CS4
FIGURE 4-7
The Copy/Paste settings affect any text pasted into Dreamweaver.
The four main Copy/Paste options are:
Text Only—
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Pastes completely unformatted text; even line breaks or paragraphs are removed.
Text With Structure—
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Pastes unstyled text while retaining structured elements such as
lists, paragraphs, line breaks, and tables.
Text With Structure Plus Basic Formatting—
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Adds simple formatting, such as bold,
italic, and underline, to structured text. If the text is copied from an HTML document, the
pasted text retains any HTML text style tags, including
<b>, <i>, <u>, <strong>, <em>,
<abbr>, and <acronym>.
Text With Structure Plus Full Formatting—
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Pasted text keeps all structure and format-
ting. If the copied text retains inline CSS styles, Dreamweaver pastes them as well.
Two other options are available for modifying your copy/paste preferences. The Retain Line Breaks
option maintains line breaks in pasted text; if you choose Text Only, this option is disabled. The
Clean Up Word Paragraph Spacing option works with the Text With Structure and Text With Struc-
ture Plus Basic Formatting choices to remove additional space between paragraphs.
New Document preferences
Dreamweaver has greatly improved the New Document interface. You can now quickly choose
which type of document you want to create, as well as select from built-in p ...