created: 20160810122928198
modified: 20230803044526608
tags: [[Editor toolbar]]
title: Using Excise
type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki

! Excise text
From the [[Editor toolbar]] you can export selected text to a new tiddler and insert a [[link|Linking in WikiText]], [[Transclusion]] or [[macro|Macros]] in its place. Click ''Excise text'' (<<.icon $:/core/images/excise>>), input name of the new tiddler, and choose excise method.

!! How to excise text
# Highlight the relevant piece of text 
# Click ''Excise text'' (<<.icon $:/core/images/excise>>)
# Give the new tiddler a title.
# Choose if the new tiddler will be tagged with the title of the current tiddler (see note below).
# Choose replacing method: [[link|Linking in WikiText]], [[transclusion|Transclusion]], or [[macro|Macros]].
# Click the ''{{$:/language/Buttons/Excise/Caption/Excise}}'' button

<<.strong Note!>> If you choose the option to `Tag new tiddler with the title of this tiddler`, the new tiddler will be tagged with the name of the current tiddler before it has been edited. If you have changed the title of the current tiddler, save it first and edit it again to perform excision with this option.
