Using the Content Editor

When you create letters or mass emails or set up your branding using IXACT Contact, a wysiwyg (“what you see is what you get”) content editor provides you with tools for creating robust formatted content.

As you use the editor, behind the scenes it automatically creates HTML programming code (the language of the internet) that represents your formatted content, but the great thing is that you do not have to know anything about programming HTML or even what it is.  

The tool includes many of the same features as popular Word processing software like Microsoft Word. If you’re not sure what the various features of the editor does, you can hover over each of the toolbar buttons with your mouse and the name of the feature will appear.

The tool includes the following formatting features:

• Text formatting
• Text colors and background colors
• Text justification
• Indenting
• Bullets and numbering
• Hyperlink insertion
• Contact-specific merge field insertion
• Tables

You can also insert your own HTML (by clicking the View HTML toolbar button). A popup presents your content as HTML programming code. This option is intended for users who are either copying and pasting HTML provided by another source (i.e. your web designer) or advanced users who would like to write their own HTML.

Image Manager

The Image Manager allows you to upload pictures from your own computer and insert them into your emails, letters or personal branding.

The Image Manager also allows you to create your own folders in order to organize the pictures that you upload. The size of each picture you upload cannot exceed 2MB and you are limited to 50MB of overall disk space.

Remember that the bigger the pictures you include in your emails, the longer it will take your email recipients to open and view your emails. Therefore, as a general rule, the pictures you upload and include in your emails should be as small as possible while still displaying properly.