105: Content Tools

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Content Editing

Content editing is used throughout the community. You can choose which kind of editor you want - Plain text or Enhanced - in your Settings > Options tab.

The information below applies to the enhanced editor. This editor includes a toolbar of options and a content area.

• Pressing Tab while in a table cell will take you to the next horizontal column cell or row.
• Pressing Shift/Tab will create an out-dent in numbered or bulleted lists.
• When you create a link in the editor, it is automatically converted to a hyperlink. For example, if you enter "Google", it becomes a live link. The rich text editor utilizes Undo and Redo buttons in the GUI. (But the Ctrl+Z or Ctrl+Y keyboard shortcuts still work.)

Content Editor 

New/Revised	Editor Option	Description
	"Edit" menu item	Contains Paste as text, find and replace, and select all.
	Paste as text	Pastes in plaintext mode. Content is pasted as plaintext until the option is toggled off.
	Find and replace	Opens a dialog where you can specify the term to find and the term to replace the find term with. Includes options to match case or whole words only. You can find the term, replace it once, or replace all instances.
	Select all	Selects the entire block of text.
	"Insert" menu item	Contains options to Insert link, insert image/video/file, embed poll, anchor, horizontal line, or special character.
	Insert link	Creates or modifies a link on the selected text.
	Insert image/video/file	Inserts an image, video, or file.
	Embed poll	Inserts an embeddable poll.
	Insert emoticon	Inserts an emoticon.
	Anchor	Inserts an anchor.
	Horizontal line	Inserts a horizontal rule line.
	Special character	Inserts a special character.
	View menu item	Includes full-screen, show blocks, show visible characters, and visual aids
	Show blocks	Separates text into blocks by returns.
	Show invisible characters	When clicked, briefly shows where characters that are hidden are located within a block of selected text, for example a non-breaking space.
	Visual aids	Turns on or off the visual lines delineating cell borders in borderless tables.
	Format menu items	Contains options for bold, italic underline, other formats, and clear formatting.
	Bold	Makes selected text bold.
	Italic	Makes selected text italic.
	Underline	Underlines the selected text.
	Formats drop-down list	Contains options for heading, inline, blocks, and alignment.
	Headings	Selects heading options for sizes 1 through 6.
	Inline	Contains options for bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and code.
	Blocks	Contains options for paragraph, blockquote, div, and pre.
	Alignment	Contains options for left, center, right, and justify.
	Table menu item	Contains options for Insert table, table properties, delete table, cell, row, and column.
	Insert table	Contains a selector graph to choose the number of rows and columns.
	Table Properties	Contains a general tab with width, height, cell spacing, cell padding, border, caption, and alignment properties; and an advanced tab with style, border color, and background color properties.
	Delete Table	Deletes the selected table.
	Cell	Contains options of cell properties, merge cells, and split cell.
	Row	Contains options to insert row before, insert row after, delete row, row properties, cut row, copy row, paste row before, and paste row after.
	Column	Contains options to insert column before, insert column after, and delete column.
	Tools menu item	Contains options to restore lost content, preview, and view source code.
	Restore lost content	Saves unsaved content in the browser every 20 seconds.  If you navigate away from the page or lose your Internet connection, you can click this option to restore the content last entered into the editor within the last 20 minutes.
	Preview	Displays the current content as formatted.
	Source code	Edit the contents via HTML.
	Font family	Includes options for Arial, Comic Sans, Courier New, Default font, Georgia, Helvetica, Impact, Tahoma, Times New Roman, and Verdana.
	Font sizes	Includes options for 75%, Inherit, 150%, and 200%
	Highlighter	Applies background highlighting to the selected text in the color you choose.
	Text Color	Selects the text color.
	Bullets & numbers	Applies bullets or numbered list formatting to the text.
	Indent	Indents or out-dents the current line of text.

How do I edit in full-screen mode?

To give yourself more editing room, you can toggle the content window into full-screen mode. This mode supports all editing functions but spell check. You can toggle back and forth easily from one mode to the other without saving the content.

To toggle between regular and full screen mode:

1. Edit a content page (wiki, forum or blog post).
2. On the enhanced text editor menu bar, click the toggle full-screen mode button. Notice that the content area consumes all the available browser area.
3. To return to regular mode, click the toggle full-screen mode button again.

Drag and Drop

Almost any kind of file can be dragged and dropped onto a blog, forum, media, or wiki post. This action works similarly to the Insert Image button or Insert Media button on the enhanced text editor toolbar.

When a file is dragged onto a post:

• Drag and dropped files are visible after the post is saved.
• Multiple files can be dragged and dropped at the same time.
• Very large files (like 100mb) can be drag and dropped.
• When an unsupported file type (such as .exe, .rpt, or .csv) is dragged over an error message is displayed and the file isn’t pasted into the editor.

Drag and Drop a File into a Post

1. Navigate to the desired post.
2. Edit or create (in the post Create/Edit window) the desired post.
3. Within your computer (desktop or other file location), navigate to the desired file.
4. Click and hold the mouse button on this file, moving it over the post’s text field. (You can also select multiple files as well!)
5. Release the mouse button. The file will be dropped onto the post.
6. Click Post. The image or icon will appear on the post.