{"id":4446,"date":"2019-01-25T10:51:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2019-01-25T10:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:55:29","slug":"did-you-know-microsoft-teams-has-a-gui-text-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=4446","title":{"rendered":"Did you know \u2026 Microsoft Teams has a GUI text editor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like keeping my fingers on the keyboard, so I like using markdown in Teams messages<\/a> (had to learn it for GitHub anyway!). The fact that hitting enter sends my posts in Teams? Generally awesome. I am not, however, the most succinct person; and a long series of thoughts is difficult to read as one continuous paragraph.<\/p>\n

And using a new paragraph can serve to highlight a sentence without resorting to big bold text.<\/p>\n

You can use shift-enter to move to a new line. Enter will still send your message.<\/p>\n

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But Teams has a GUI-driven composition mode — just click \u201cFormat\u201d — that allows you to easily compose multi-line messages. In this editor, enter doesn’t send the message. It just moves the cursor to the next line.<\/p>\n

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There are a lot<\/em> of formatting options available too. Basic typographical emphasis can be added to your text, and anything you type into the \u2018Subject\u2019 section will automatically be large, bold text.<\/p>\n

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The little highlighter icon will highlight text.<\/p>\n

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The underlined \u201cA\u201d changes the font color.<\/p>\n

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The icon with two A\u2019s controls the text size.<\/p>\n

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So you can add really tiny or larger text.<\/p>\n

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Allowing you to use smaller or larger text.<\/p>\n

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You can create a bulleted list by clicking the icon with bulleted lines (or a numbered list by clicking the one with numbered lines). To end the list, either click the icon again or hit enter twice.<\/p>\n

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The quotation marks highlights text as a quote (two enters returns you to normal paragraph format here too), and hitting the drop-down next to \u201cParagraph\u201d provides a list of pre-formatted text options.<\/p>\n

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A really cool feature for programmer-types \u2013 click the \u2018code snipped\u2019 icon.<\/p>\n

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A new composition window will be displayed \u2013 click the drop-down text to \u201cText\u201d and select the programming language.<\/p>\n

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Text formatting will be applied to your code \u2013 the code I paste into Teams looks exactly<\/em> like it does in my IDE.<\/p>\n

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When you have finished composing your message, you can click the little paper aeroplane to send your message. Or, if you prefer keeping your hands on the keyboard, hit ctrl-enter.<\/p>\n

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