Chapter 17: Automating Tasks

This chapter introduced some of the automation features within Dreamweaver. One useful feature covered was the History Panel which allows you to select certain actions or sets of actions and have them performed on new sets of data. For instance, if you took the following three steps:

1. Selected text
2. Right aligned text
3. Bolded text

You could then, using the history panel, select the three steps that were performed, and have them performed elsewhere--say, in the next text section. Thus this tool allows the user to quickly replicate simple and repetitive tasks in order to save time.

Another feature covered in the chapter was how to use find and replace. It works very similarly to the find and replace functions in MS word, but differs in that you can select what type of text you want to search, source code, tags, etc.