Text editor tips: formatting, line breaks, and links

Commslayer's email composer is a rich text editor. Here are the most common things people run into and how to handle them.

Line breaks vs. paragraph breaks

The composer behaves like most email clients:

Enter — creates a new paragraph (adds a blank line of space between blocks, like pressing Enter twice in a Word doc).
Shift + Enter — creates a line break (single-line spacing, no extra gap).

Use Shift + Enter when you want text to wrap to the next line without extra whitespace — for example, inside an address or a list of items where you don't want paragraph-level spacing.

Adding a hyperlink

To turn text into a clickable link:

Select the text you want to link.
Click the link icon (🔗) in the formatting toolbar above the editor.
Paste or type the URL in the popup and confirm.

The selected text will become a clickable hyperlink in your email.

Pasting from Excel or Google Sheets

When you paste tabular data directly from a spreadsheet, the formatting can carry over in unexpected ways (extra spacing, merged cells, etc.). To get clean results:

Paste as plain text using Cmd + Shift + V (Mac) or Ctrl + Shift + V (Windows/Linux). This strips all formatting and pastes the raw text.
Then reformat as needed inside the editor.

Alternatively, type the content manually or use a canned response if you find yourself pasting the same table often.

Other formatting tips

Use the toolbar to apply bold, italic, bullet lists, and numbered lists.
To clear all formatting from selected text, look for the remove formatting button in the toolbar (usually looks like an eraser or Tx).
Signatures are added automatically if you've set one up — you can edit them under Settings > Profiles.