By Kelsey Johnson August 2, 2022
Fewer distractions, sooner formatting, and extra enhancements to make your writing expertise higher within the message editor.
We’ve made some huge enhancements to the message editor to take away distractions and aid you keep centered on what you do greatest — writing content material your viewers will love.
What’s new?
All enhancements had been made due to suggestions from prospects such as you. We all know you’re busy — the brand new message editor will aid you write emails sooner so you may get again to working your small business.
Right here’s what you may anticipate:
Higher focus whereas writing emails
The font and magnificence edit bar is now utterly out of your means till you want it. When you drag-and-drop parts, all you’ll see is a paragraph icon on the left facet of your display screen. You’ll have full visibility of your textual content.
Wish to make adjustments to something?
When you choose any textual content in your e mail, the modifying software will mechanically seem with choices to:
- Daring, italicize, underline, or strikethrough the textual content
- Add a hyperlink
- Change the textual content font, dimension, coloration, or background coloration
- Take away all formatting
Choose the paragraph icon on the left facet of the display screen for:
- Headings
- Fonts
- Sizes
- Line heights
- Numbered or bulleted lists
- Alignment
- Indent choices
- Horizontal traces
- Block quotes
- Personalization choices
- The textual content’s supply code
With a wealth of choices at your fingertips, however with out being in your means, you may higher focus in your writing.
Write emails with out leaving the keyboard utilizing Markdown
Wish to reduce your e mail writing time in half? Now you can use Markdown — an easy-to-learn code language — to format and write e mail messages.
Try this side-by-side to see the time distinction:
What’s Markdown?
Markdown is a straightforward coding language that lets you format textual content with out having to click on a menu bar together with your mouse.
To make use of Markdown, you add particular symbols earlier than and after your textual content. These symbols are then interpreted by Markdown and alter the textual content to the formatting you specified. or instance, let’s say you wish to make your textual content daring.
Add two asterisks (*) earlier than and after the textual content and it’ll seem daring.
Markdown cheat sheet
As soon as you recognize even a number of Markdown symbols, you’ll give you the option write your emails a lot sooner. Listed here are the symbols you’re most certainly use in your emails:
Obtain the AWeber Markdown cheat sheet PDF.
Word: Most occasions you’ll want so as to add an area after the image to provoke the format. So for a bulleted listing, you sort * after which the area bar.
How do I take advantage of Markdown within the message editor?
Pull in a paragraph aspect and start typing as normal. If you wish to create a header, numbered listing, or daring phrase, use the Markdown image related to that format.
So, to start out an H2 header, sort two hash tags (##) after which click on the area bar. You’ll then be in a header format, so merely write your header.
To get again to a standard paragraph, hit return to get onto a brand new line. You’ll not be in a header format.
We advocate enjoying round with the entire symbols for a minute or two the subsequent time you log into the message editor. They’re simple to be taught and also you’ll save tons of time writing and formatting all future emails.
Now you may reduce your writing time in half through the use of Markdown to format headers, lists, textual content settings, and extra. Study extra about Markdown in AWeber.
Streamlined formatting
Earlier this 12 months we added headers to the paragraph aspect, increasing what you are able to do without having to tug in something new. (Plus, copy and paste is now extraordinarily simple.)
So, to make formatting even sooner and simpler, you now have three extra choices within the paragraph aspect.
1. Add a horizontal line
2. Add a blockquote
3. Change the road heights based mostly on paragraph, not aspect (no want to tug in a brand new paragraph aspect to regulate line top on only one paragraph).
These three choices will let you do extra inside one aspect, which implies much less time dragging in new rows and extra time specializing in writing.
Linking textual content “simply is sensible”
Wish to add hyperlinks in your e mail? Choose the textual content and click on the hyperlink icon or CTRL + Ok (PC) or CMD + Ok (Mac) to convey up the brand new hyperlink possibility. It’s easy and fast so as to add, take away, or edit hyperlinks.
We recognize your suggestions
Check out the message editor and tell us what you suppose. We love listening to the way it has improved your writing expertise and made your e mail advertising sooner and simpler.
We make updates like these due to suggestions from prospects such as you! Inform us within the feedback what you’d wish to see subsequent from AWeber. Want an account? Get began with a free account.
