By default you can type only in elements which accept text content. So if the element is declared as empty or element only in the associated schema you will not be allowed to insert text in it. This is also available if you ty to insert CDATA inside an element. Instead a warning message will be shown:
You can disable this behavior by checking the Allow Text in empty or element only content checkbox in the Author preferences page.
Entire sections or chunks of data can be moved or copied by using the Drag and Drop support. The following situations can be encountered:
when both the drag and drop sources are Author pages, an well-formed XML fragment is transferred. The section will be balanced before dropping it by adding matching tags when needed.
when the drag source is the Author page but the drop target is a text based editor only the text inside the selection will be transferred as it is.
the text dropped from another text editor or another application into the Author page will be inserted without changes.
The font size of the current WYSIWYG-like editor can be increased and decreased on the fly with the same actions as in the Text editor:
increase font size
decrease font size
restore font size to the size specified in Preferences
Removing the text content of the current element You can remove the text content of the current element and keep only the markup with the action available on the submenu Refactoring of the contextual menu and on the toolbar XML Refactoring. This is useful when the markup of an element must be preserved, for example a table structure but the text content must be replaced.