Rich Text Box Editor

Rich Text Box Editor is a fully-featured word processor. It enables you to create, edit, and format the content of a Rich Text Box label object.

Sections below describe the editor's tabs and matching ribbon groups with commands that are available when creating and editing the Rich Text box content.

Home Tab

File ribbon group enables the handling of a document.

  • Import: importing of textual content to the editor.

  • Export: exporting of textual content from the editor.

    Tip

    Use file browser window to select the export location. By default, the editor content is exported as a file with .rtf extension. To specify an alternative file format, select it from the drop-down list.

Clipboard ribbon group activates the following actions:

  • Paste: pastes clipboard data.

  • Copy: copies current selection to the clipboard.

  • Cut: cuts selection to clipboard.

Undo Redo ribbon group undos or repeats editing actions.

Font ribbon group includes typical font style and formatting related commands. These are font selection, size, font growing and shrinking, bold, italics, etc.

Tip

For additional font-related settings, open the Font box in dialog form by clicking the icon in the bottom right corner of the ribbon group.

Text Box group defines lists and indents, toggles formatting symbols, sets alignment and line spacing, and enables text shading.

Tip

For additional text related settings, open the Text Box in dialog form by clicking the icon in the bottom right corner of the ribbon group.

Editing group includes:

  • Find searches and locates the inserted string within a text.

  • Replace locates and replaces the inserted string with a new text.

Insert

Insert group enables adding editable elements to the rich text object.

  • Data Source: adds variable, function, or a database field as a dynamic content source.

  • Table: opens the Insert Table dialog. Define Number of columns and Number of rows. After clicking OK, a table with the defined number of columns and rows is placed in the rich text editor.

  • Picture: inserts a picture into the rich text object.

  • Symbol: opens Insert Symbol dialog for character selection.

    • Search by code: character search by unicode character code.

    • Font name: font selection.

    • Character set: an active set of characters.

    • Filter: character search filter.

    Frequently used symbols are displayed at the bottom of the dialog box. Click the symbol to insert it directly in the rich text object.

View

Zoom group allows zooming the text in and out.