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 enable you keep targeted on what you do finest — 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 enable you write emails sooner so you will get again to operating your corporation.
Right here’s what you may count on:
Higher focus whereas writing emails
The font and elegance edit bar is now fully out of your method till you want it. When you drag-and-drop components, all you’ll see is a paragraph icon on the left aspect of your display. You’ll have full visibility of your textual content.
Wish to make modifications to something?
When you choose any textual content in your electronic mail, the modifying device will robotically seem with choices to:
- Daring, italicize, underline, or strikethrough the textual content
- Add a hyperlink
- Change the textual content font, measurement, shade, or background shade
- Take away all formatting
Choose the paragraph icon on the left aspect of the display for:
- Headings
- Fonts
- Sizes
- Line heights
- Numbered or bulleted lists
- Alignment
- Indent choices
- Horizontal strains
- Block quotes
- Personalization choices
- The textual content’s supply code
With a wealth of choices at your fingertips, however with out being in your method, you may higher focus in your writing.
Write emails with out leaving the keyboard utilizing Markdown
Wish to reduce your electronic mail writing time in half? Now you can use Markdown — an easy-to-learn code language — to format and write electronic mail messages.
Take a look at this side-by-side to see the time distinction:
What’s Markdown?
Markdown is an easy coding language that means that you can format textual content with out having to click on a menu bar along 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 even a couple of Markdown symbols, you’ll have the opportunity write your emails a lot sooner. Listed here are the symbols you’re almost certainly use in your emails:
Obtain the AWeber Markdown cheat sheet PDF.
Observe: 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 house bar.
How do I take advantage of Markdown within the message editor?
Pull in a paragraph component and start typing as standard. If you wish to create a header, numbered listing, or daring phrase, use the Markdown image related to that format.
So, to begin an H2 header, sort two hash tags (##) after which click on the house bar. You’ll then be in a header format, so merely write your header.
To get again to a traditional paragraph, hit return to get onto a brand new line. You’ll now not be in a header format.
We advocate taking part in round with all the symbols for a minute or two the following time you log into the message editor. They’re simple to study and also you’ll save tons of time writing and formatting all future emails.
Now you may reduce your writing time in half by utilizing Markdown to format headers, lists, textual content settings, and extra. Be taught extra about Markdown in AWeber.
Streamlined formatting
Earlier this yr we added headers to the paragraph component, increasing what you are able to do with no need 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 component.
1. Add a horizontal line
2. Add a blockquote
3. Change the road heights primarily based on paragraph, not component (no want to tug in a brand new paragraph component to regulate line top on only one paragraph).
These three choices help you do extra inside one component, which suggests much less time dragging in new rows and extra time specializing in writing.
Linking textual content “simply is smart”
Wish to add hyperlinks in your electronic mail? Choose the textual content and click on the hyperlink icon or CTRL + Okay (PC) or CMD + Okay (Mac) to deliver up the brand new hyperlink choice. It’s easy and fast so as to add, take away, or edit hyperlinks.
We admire your suggestions
Check out the message editor and tell us what you assume. We love listening to the way it has improved your writing expertise and made your electronic 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 prefer to see subsequent from AWeber. Want an account? Get began with a free account.
