Field Editor: List Punctuation Marker

In the Field Editor, under Regions and Rules, you click create a punctuated list to add list marker fields. List marker fields tell HotDocs to punctuate a list of items as you desire (e.g. APPLES, BANANAS AND ORANGES).

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  1. Common Task
  2. Field Type
  3. Field Properties
  4. Field Toolbar

Common Task

Field Type

The Field Type element of the HotDocs Field Editor declares whether the currently selected HotDocs Field is a placeholder field or an instruction field.

Field Properties

Element What it Does
Format Enables you to select the list format that represents how you would like your list punctuated.

 

Field Toolbar

At the bottom of the HotDocs Field Editor, you have access to the following actions:

Buttons What it Does
Add Field Adds the placeholder field to the template in the selected location.
Clear Choices button Clears all the settings in the Field Editor for the currently selected placeholder field.
Delete Field Button [X] Selecting anywhere in a HotDocs field causes the Delete field button to appear. If you select outside a HotDocs field, or include anything besides a single HotDocs field, the button disappears (if it was previously visible), or else does not appear. Clicking the Delete field button removes the selected field completely. Clicking Microsoft Word's Undo button restores the field completely.

The Delete field button exists to solve a particular problem: In Microsoft Word, you can delete a HotDocs field by clicking in the field, then clicking the field's handle, and then pressing the DELETE key on the keyboard. However, if you select the field using only the keyboard, Word does not easily enable you to delete the field. You can do so by deleting all the content of the field and then pressing the DELETE key again, or if your cursor is just to the right of the field, you can press the Backspace button once to select the field's content, a second time to delete the content, then a third time removes the field. HotDocs provides the Delete field button to simplify this process.