Quick Start Guides

Editor Tips and Tricks

The following is a list of tips and tricks that will assist you in formatting content in your blogs and wikis using the graphical text editor. This editor is designed for rendering HTLM content and works similarly to a MS Word editor. However, there are some features you may not be familiar with.

1.      On the bottom right above the Save button, click (resize) and drag the button vertically to resize the text box.

      2a. You can also click  (toggle full screen mode) to preview the content in full screen mode before saving.

      2b. Click the Toggle Full Screen Mode button again to return to the edit mode to save.

If you mouse over the buttons in the text editor toolbar, a text pop-up displays. For instance, if you mouse over , a text pop-up displays Undo.” For a complete explanation of the buttons in the toolbar, refer to the Understanding the Text Editor Quick Start Guide.

Most of the buttons on the third row of the text editor toolbar concern table functions and may be grayed out. You must first click  to insert a new table. The other buttons that address row and cell properties, inserting and deleting rows and columns, and splitting and merging cells will become available.

1.       Before editing the text, click  to display the Edit CSS Style dialog box.

2.       On the Text tab, select the Font option (e.g., Arial, Times New Roman), the Size option, and the Color option.

3.       On the Background tab, select the Background color option, the Background image, and the Horizontal position

          and Vertical position options.

         Other tabs, such as Block , Box, Border, List and Position, apply various global settings to the page.

4.       When done, click the Update button to apply the changes to all of the content on the page.

You may determine that certain sections of text or words require different font, size, or color options. Apply these settings individually after you have edited and applied the global styles.

Pressing the enter key on your keyboard inserts a paragraph break between the line of text above and the line of text that follows. Pressing enter + shift inserts a line break between the text above and the text that follows, thereby eliminating the double spacing.

Tables are an easy way to organize text and images on a page. They help to organize the placement of images and text and will give your pages a horizontal as well as a vertical appearance. You can also create hyperlinks in tables by selecting text and clicking  to enable a jump to an internal or external web page.

 If you are not using a table, you can improve your page layout by modifying the properties of the image.

1.      Right click on the graphic and select Image properties.

2.      Click the Appearance tab.

3.      Select Alignment options (e.g., Top, Middle, Bottom, Left, Right).