WYSIWYG is an acronym for “What You See Is What You Get.” The WYSIWYG editor facilitates web page creation , with formatting features you are most might be familiar with from word processing software.
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Frequently Used Functions
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Undo/Redo: Click to undo or redo your last action.
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Bold and Italic: Click to bold or italicize your text. Select your text and click to apply styling.
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Font/Image Alignment: Click to align your text/image either to the left, center, or right.
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Formats: Create headings (h1 - h6) and paragraph blocks. Highlight the word or words you wish to format and click to apply.
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Bullet and Numbered Lists: Select multiple lines of text and click to create lists. Unordered lists create a bullet list, and ordered lists will automatically number each item in the list.
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Insert/Edit Link: Click to insert a link to another page, either internal or external. Highlight the word or words you wish to hyperlink and click to apply.
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Remove Link: The remove link function will remove a link. Place your cursor within the linked text and click to remove.
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Insert/Edit Image: Click to add an image to your page. Place your cursor where you would like to insert the image before clicking on function.
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Insert/Edit Media: Click to add a video (YouTube or Vimeo) to your page.
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WYSIWYG Interface - Quick Icon Guide
Refer to the image below for a visual representation of the WYSIWYG interface, which provides a quick icon guide to help you identify and utilize the available editing tools.
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WYSIWYG Menu Options
Edit
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Undo: Select to revert the last action taken, allowing you to correct mistakes or changes made unintentionally.
Redo: Select to reinstate the previously undone action, effectively reversing an "Undo" command.
Cut: Click to remove the selected content from the document and temporarily store it on the clipboard for later use.
Copy: Click to create a duplicate of the selected content and store it on the clipboard without removing the original text.
Paste: Click to insert the content stored on the clipboard into the document at the current cursor location.
Paste as text: Select to insert the content from the clipboard as plain text, stripping any formatting, styles or special characters.
Select all: Select to highlight the entire content of the document, enabling you to apply formatting or actions to the whole text at once.
Format
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Bold/Italic/Underline: Click to apply emphasis to your text by making it bold, italicized or underlined.
Strikethrough: Click to cross out text to show that it's no longer relevant or has been edited.
Subscript: Select to display text slightly below the baseline, typically used for chemical formulas or mathematical expressions.
Superscript: Click to elevate text slightly above the baseline, often used for footnotes or mathematical exponents.
Font Color: Select to change the color of your text to enhance readability or add visual interest.
Background Color: Choose the background color behind your text to highlight specific sections or create visual contrast.
Format Submenu:
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Headings: Select to structure content with various heading levels (H1 to H6) for improved readability.
Inline: Click to apply "code" style to distinguish short code snippets or technical terms.
Blocks: Choose to organize content using predefined text blocks like paragraphs, blockquotes or code blocks.
Insert
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Link: Click to insert an internal or external link.
Anchor: Select to link to a location within your document.
Image: Click to insert an image.
Media: Click to add a video (YouTube or Vimeo) to your page.
Special character: Click to insert an alphanumeric character.
Horizontal line: Click to insert a horizontal line across the width of the text frame.
Date/time: Click to insert the date/time in one of four format options.
Table
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Table: Insert a table with your choice of columns and rows.
Table properties: Click to change specific settings for the table.
Delete table: To delete the table, select it and click Delete table.
Cell: Select to change specific settings for the cell or to merge cells.
Row: Select to insert, delete and copy rows as well as change row properties.
Column: Select to insert, delete and copy columns as well as change row properties.
View
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Visual aids: Toggle on and off; allows objects such as gridlines for tables to be seen in the editing window.
Show blocks: Toggle on and off; shows separation of objects on your page.
Tools
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Spellcheck: Click to check your page for spelling errors.
Source code: Allows advanced users, who have been granted access, to edit the HTML source.
Fullscreen: Click to expand the editing window to fullscreen.
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