How To Strip Formatting in Narratives

What: How to strip span formatting in narratives

Why: Sometimes users fail to use Paste as Plain Text when copying data from external sources. This can cause inconsistent font, font sizes, and font colors

Who on Campus: Users with ‘Contributor’ access to the narrative

Where is this located: Requirement > Options > Edit Item

How to Strip Span Formatting: (In the Edit Mode of your narrative)

1. Highlight the text with incorrect formatting

2. Click the down-arrow just to the right of the paintbrush icon in the text editor toolbar

3. Select Strip Span Elements

The system will strip the unwanted html characters.

4. Click Save to apply the changes

*Note you must only highlight text that does not include tables to use this function.

Paste content in plain text to eliminate the need to strip formatting from copied content.