Line texts are predefined texts that can be printed on various documents in Microsoft Business Central.
On this help page, you will find an example of the necessary steps to set up texts for an item.
In case no texts have been set up yet, you will find the corresponding instructions on the page Setup, Line Texts help page.
Steps for using line texts using the example of a Sales Order
Open the Sales Orderpage.
Fill in the fields in the Sales Header as required.
Create a line with an item on which you have placed an Extended Text.
Note
The field Automatic Ext. Texts indicates that a text module is stored and automatically inserted into the selected documents.
Once you leave the No. field, the line texts are inserted on the document.
Change or manually adding line texts
The Document Text Lines page shows the text lines of the respective document.
You can access this page by clicking on the Line Texts action or by using the DrillDown function of the Line Texts field.
Here you can edit the lines, add new ones, or delete unwanted lines. With the Insert Extended Text option, you can insert existing text modules into the lines.
Additionally, formatting options are available for the document text lines.
For more information, see Setup, Extended Texts - Formatting texts.
Actions
Insert Extended Text
This action can be used to select standard texts and insert them into the lines.
Related information
Setup, Line Texts Line texts are used in all areas of Business Central. For example, when you create an item, you can use it to provide more details about that item. When you create a line with this item in a document, the texts are then inserted as line texts...
Setup, Extended Texts You can extend the description for items, inventory data, G/L accounts, and resources by adding additional lines as extended text. You can also set conditions for the use of the additional lines...
Working with Line Texts
Here you can edit the lines, add new ones, or delete unwanted lines. With the Insert Extended Text option, you can insert existing text modules into the lines.
Additionally, formatting options are available for the document text lines.
For more information, see Setup, Extended Texts - Formatting texts.
