Title: Not intuitive enough for basic editing
Last modified: April 30, 2019

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# Not intuitive enough for basic editing

 *  [Squidy McSquid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/x1-bot/)
 * (@x1-bot)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-intuitive-enough-for-basic-editing/)
 * Why oh why does it make a new block everytime I hit return? I just want a paragraph.
   This update breaks the most basic functions of editing. I don’t know if it’s 
   my theme or what but it does not play nice. Also when I converted all my text
   to html and then switched back to the editor it wrapped everything in DIVs instead
   of paragraphs!

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 *  [Andrei Draganescu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andraganescu/)
 * (@andraganescu)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-intuitive-enough-for-basic-editing/#post-11541453)
 * In Gutenberg the block is the basic editing unit, hence “everything” is a block.
   A paragraph therefore becomes a block with individual properties.
 * Hitting return is by default meant to create a new paragraph, it does this in
   all major desktop grade text editors (Pages, Word, etc.), hence in Gutenberg 
   it will create a new block, because all paragraphs are blocks.
 * If you don’t want to create a new paragraph there is always SHIFT+Enter which
   will simply create a newline in the current block/paragraph.
 * What do you mean by:
 * > when I converted all my text to html and then switched back to the editor
 * How do you do that?

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