How to Enable Formatting in EZ


The EZ text editor has two different basic editing modes. One of them is used for editing plain text files with no formatting commands in them. In this mode, paragraphs are outdented (as you have observed). The other is for editing formatted text, such as papers, letters, etc. In this mode, paragraphs are indented, and other basic formatting commands are available.

One way to get EZ to start up with basic formatting, or basic styles, enabled is to tell it to edit a file whose name has an extension that it recognizes. The extensions which will toggle formatted text mode are: .txt, .text, .ez, .EZ, .eZ, and .Ez.

If you do want to enable the EZ features such as format control and various fonts and sizes (i.e, to treat the file as a regular EZ file), you can do so by selecting the Enable Basic Styles option from the Special menu card. Note that once you have enabled the EZ styles for a file, EZ will from then on treat this file as a regular EZ file, not as a plain-text file, even if the file does not have an EZ recognized extension.

For more information about filename extensions and EZ, see the andrew help section entitled Filename Extensions and EZ.