Formatting Tools

The Formatting tab in the TXLF Editor includes formatting tools you can use to edit the target content format.

Formatting tools fall into three categories: format, tags, and options.

Format

  Note:

Format category options are only available for MS Office source file formats.

Button

Keyboard Shortcut

Description

Ctrl+B

Format the selected text as bold.

Ctrl+I

Format the selected text as italic.

Ctrl+U

Format the selected text as underlined.

Ctrl+=

Format the selected text as subscript.

Ctrl+Shift+=

Format the selected text as superscript.

No shortcut

Format the selected text to display as strikethrough (deleted), without actually deleting the text.

Tags

Button

Keyboard Shortcut

Description

No shortcut

Display actual formatting associated with tags for the active segment (when supported.)

No shortcut

Display the content of the formatting tags for the active segment.

Options

Button

Keyboard Shortcut

Description

Ctrl+Shift+Space

Insert a non-breaking space at the cursor location.

No shortcut

Insert a marker to indicate left-to-right reading direction.

No shortcut

Insert a marker to indicate right-to-left reading direction.

Ctrl+D

Attach and detach the Formatting toolbar. When attached, the toolbar is displayed as a tab. When detached, the toolbar is displayed as a minimized toolbar that can be moved to any area of the TXLF Editor.