Chapter 8 Managing Objects

Editing notes using an external editor

You can edit notes using an external editor to take advantage of the editor advanced features, like grammar check for example.

You define your preferred editors in the General Options dialog box. The first editor you define becomes the default editor since the list of editors is not sorted.

For more information on defining a default editor, see section Defining general options in chapter Using PowerDesigner Interface.

You can also select another editor directly from the contextual menu of the Edit With tool, which allows you to select an application program. Thus you can easily switch from one application program to another depending on the editor features you want to use.

When you select an application program, it is automatically displayed in the contextual menu of the Edit With tool as a new sub-entry, and also in the list of editors in the Editors page of the General Options dialog box.

To edit notes using an external editor:

1. Double-click an object in the diagram to display the object property sheet.
2. Click the Notes tab.
3. Click the tab (Description or Annotation) that contains the text you want to edit.
   
   The corresponding tab is displayed.
   
4. Click the Edit With tool.
   
   or
   
   Click the Down Arrow beside the Edit With tool to open the contextual menu.
   
   Select Choose Program to select a program file.
   
   Click Open.
   
   The text to edit is displayed in the external editor you defined. If you have not yet defined an external editor, the text to edit opens with the editor associated to it in your registry.
   

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