The Advanced Toolbar in the new editor
Advanced Toolbar
These are some of the advanced toolbar options that you may not need to use daily but are helpful to know.
Undo allows you to undo your last action. If you then change your mind redo allows you to bring the action back. Highlight the text (place your mouse at the beginning of the text and drag over it) that you want to remove formatting from and click the undo arrow. Click on the redo arrow to bring the formatting back.
Toolbar: Find and Find/Replace
The binoculars allow you to find a word or symbol once or throughout your text. The find icon can even recognize upper case or lower case for a more specific search.
Find and replace allows you to make substitutions quickly and efficiently. You are able to find every occurrence of a word, sentence or symbol and replace with new text throughout your page.
Toolbar: Insert a New Table
To insert a table to organize data click on the first icon- a chart with a pencil. You will then get a pop up window that allows you to customize the size of the chart by the number of rows and columns and the width and height. You can also customize the alignment. One you have created a chart you are able to modify the rows or cells. You can also add and delete rows and columns as needed.
Finally, you can merge two or more cells and split merged cells as needed. These icons allow you to manipulate data with ease.
The pull down menu on the second row of icons allows you to format your page or a block of text in different ways. To choose a format, highlight your text and click on the pull down menu to choose Paragraph, Address, Preformatted or Headings 1-6. If you would like to remove the formatting you can either choose another format or click the undo key while your text is still highlighted.
These formatting options allow you to change the size and appearance of a block of text or an entire page.
Headlines
Within the text of your page you can create several levels of headlines by using the Format menu on the far right of the second row of the tool bar. To select a headline level, highlight your headline text then choose an item from the pulldown menu. To remove the headline level from a line of text, select (highlight) the text then choose --format-- (the first option) from the pulldown menu.
The Page Title will automatically appear at the top of your page, formatted according to the master stylesheet. You can edit the text of the page title at the very top of the editing page where it says PageTitle. Do not include any punctuation or HTML within the title.
The page title will appear as a first level headline (heading 1). You should not mark any other text as heading 1.
Normal section titles are marked with heading 2 or 3 (depending on the size). If your page has a few main divisions with sections within them, you should use heading 2 for the main division headings and heading 3 for the section titles.
Including HTML If you attempt to include HTML code directly in your page, it will be automatically removed.