Keyboard shortcut for ‘convert to block’

  • 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 kep 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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  • 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?

    Thread Starter sacdawg

    (@sacdawg)

    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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