Editing Text

Use

In the PC editor, the following menu and toolbars are available for editing text:

Microsoft Office menu/toolbar (highlighted in red)
SAPscript menu/toolbar (highlighted in blue)

Procedure

Proceed as follows when editing text:

Editing Text Using the Microsoft Office Menu

You can use the standard word processing functions from Microsoft → Office in the MS Word editor. In the Microsoft Office menu bar, choose one of the following options:

Edit:
- Copy, Cut, and Paste
- Insert from Office clipboard
- Find and Replace
- Repeat and Undo entries
Extras:
- Spelling and Grammar…
- Language Thesaurus...
- Language Translate...

You can also switch between SAP styles and SAP formats.

Note

If you have Adobe → Acrobat installed on your PC, you can convert SAPscript texts to Portable Document Format (PDF).

If you have Microsoft → Office 2003 installed on your PC, you can convert SAPscript texts to Microsoft → Document Imaging (MDI) and to XML.

Editing Text Using the SAPscript Menu

The following functions are available to you through the SAPscript menu:

Including Texts

You can include standard texts, online documentation texts, and hypertext modules.
Inserting Symbols

You can include text, program, standard, and system symbols.
Starting the PC Editor Manually
Creating Additional Information

Additional information consists of symbols, control commands, text elements, comments, SAP characters, and links.
Using Clipboards
Setting a Page Break Manually
Numbering and Marking Headings and Paragraphs
Tabs and Tables Settings
Switching Editor

If you want to switch to the line editor, choose Goto Change Editor in the word processing mode menu.

More information about the line editor: The Line Editor.

Restrictions

The following restrictions relate to the SAPscript menu:

You cannot choose Edit Command Change/Display/Delete Command .
You can edit other texts only in the language of the current text by choosing Text Other Text .
The display mode and change mode for SAPscript texts are not indicated by different colors.
You can use only those paragraph and text formats that have been defined as format templates (such as Header 1). You cannot use any other Microsoft Word formats, and you cannot create your own format templates.
The SAPscript text format ITF does not support all graphics, hyperlinks, tables, or list formats that you can insert in Microsoft Word using the user clipboard or Drag&Drop. To make sure that your text displays correctly once saved, avoid using these two functions in the MS Word editor.
When you open a text in the Microsoft Word editor that you have created in another SAPscript editor, make sure that you also save the text without making changes, to avoid inconsistencies between ITF and Microsoft Word.