Deleting content

Background

Starting point

The procedure in this topic assumes Skribenta is installed and configured for normal operation, and:

You have logged into Skribenta.
You are assigned to one of the following user roles: content provider, technical writer or administrator.
You have selected the workspace you want to work in.
A content file or a configuration file is created in the workspace.
You have browsed to and opened the file in the Workspace view or the Publications view.
The file has an XML element that can contain text, such as a paragraph, a title, or a table caption.

Your need

You need to delete some content in a file.

The possibility

It is possible to delete content in file in different ways. It is possible to:

What you will learn

This instruction tells you how to delete content in a file.

The result

This is the file content before deleting a selection:

This is the file content after deleting a selection:

In the shown images, the XML tags are visible. To show XML tags, see Turning XML element tags on or off.

Overall steps

Open the file, then delete specific content in the file.

Time

Less than 1 minute

In the shown images, the XML tags are visible. To show XML tags, see Turning XML element tags on or off.

1. Make sure that the step(s) in section "Starting point" (see section "Background" above) are performed.

2. In your file content, select content that you want to delete.

3. Press Delete or Backspace.

The selection is deleted from the file content.

An empty element can be deleted by putting the caret inside the element and then pressing Delete or Backspace.

Alternative procedure: Delete content using the cut function

You can delete content by using the cut function, see Cutting content.