If you are unable to change the typography or font of your text on your OptimizePress Lightlighting Builder pages, this is usually because the text has been copied from another source and has some external formatting applied
This can happy if you copy text from another web page or website, or if you copy text from an external document (such as Word, Pages or a PDF).
All of these applications can add formatting which is imported when you copy and paste the text, and added inline. This formatting can be very hard to remove
We have created our editor to try and strip out some of this formatting, however this isn't always 100% effective
Using inline options to remove formatting
If you are still unable to adjust a font or font size after pasting text in the editor, try these steps:
1. Use the remove formatting option within our inline settings:
Highlight the text that you are unable to format with our typography options - and you will see the inline text editor bar appear
Click the remove formatting option from the end of the menu and this will attempt to strip out any external formatting:
If you have copied over content which also has formatting tags such as h1, h2 etc, you can also try setting the text to use the paragraph formatting from the inline formatting menu:
If this still does not work
If this still does not work, you would be best to copy your text into a plain text editor first, then copy it into the editor
Keyboard Shortcut to Paste Text
We now have a keyboard shortcut to past text. While editing a text element, just hold down the Shift key while you are right clicking and this will allow you to access the browsers right click menu.
Then select "Paste as Plain Text"
You can also just use the keyboard shortcut (in Windows) "CTRL+ SHIFT + V" to paste the plain text.
Further troubleshooting
If you copy text into a headline, sometimes the external formatting can override the headline tag set in our editor. This can lead to font sizing issues for your text. To fix this, it is always best to copy to a plain text editor first, or re-type your headline manually in a new headline element