-[KEYBOARD SHORTCUT] FOR [CONVERT TO BLOCK]-

-as of [14 MAY 2024]

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(APRIL 2019)

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*QUESTION* —>

Hi, in transferring text from my old block and poasting it into the new gutenberg editor,

i was wondering why there isn’t a keyboard shortcut for ‘convert to black’…

when i’m dealing with forme ‘classic blocks’ from my blog, it wil create a new block for ee line?

but i want to keep it as ‘1 block for multiple lines’ beacuse i wanted to keep those spaces from being ‘block dividers.

otherwise i have to manully delete the spaces, covert, and then crate the spaces again

thanks!

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*ANSWERS* —>

It’s a good question.

For my own Gutenberg migration to blocks, I just keep away from converting old posts.

(only when i have to edit them I make a decision if I need to convert them to block and most of the time, I just keep them in the Classic Block and edit them there)

The Classic Block, different form the Classic Editor plugin is a part of Gutenberg and will always be there as an option.

I am however not quite sure, I understood the problem in need of a solution.

Could you try again, if my comment don’t address what you are looking for?

hey brigit,

thanks ,

hers a youtube clip of my problem –

in this case, ‘converting’ to blocks added a new block for every line space.

i wanted to see if there was a way to convert to blocks while keeping it a single pragraph block without manually getting rid of all the spaces in the original entry.

also, after converting to blocks and re-inserting spaces for single block,

i was also wondering if there was a way to ‘split’ a paragraph block in two without cutting bottom text,

hiitting ‘plus sign’ at the bottom of the top text, and then pasting the bottom text into new block

so if a paragraph block was put together lke this:

***block top******
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
SPACE
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
***block bottm****

and i wanted to split this block into without having to cut bottom text and re-insert

also, in th vid i was using a paragraph block with 3 ‘-‘ symbols which i often use as a ‘blog divider’…

sometimes i use a reusable block to quickly add the default 3 ‘-‘ symbols and then later decide i want to make it just a 1 ‘-‘ symbol in the block, when i delete the two bottom ‘-‘ symbols, it automatically converts the block into a bulleted list block so i wouuld have to either remove the block when manually changing it doesn’t work.

(sorry, that last ‘slug block’ issue isn’t really a big problem for me despite convoluted explanation)

thanks for all your help!

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