The editor has two bars of buttons: the upper navigation bar and the lower toolbar.
Menu Bar
The navigation bar has several tabs in a layout similar to other applications:
File
- New Document - Creates a new document
Edit
- Undo - Undoes Typing
- Redo - Redoes Typing
- Cut - Cuts text to clipboard
- Copy - Copies text to clipboard
- Paste - Pastes text from clipboard
- Paste as Text - Pastes text from clipboard removing formatting
- Select all - Selects all content within the body section of a document
View
- Source Code - Switches to code view mode
- Visual Aids - Toggles visual aids
- Spellcheck - Toggles spell checking within the document
- Fullscreen Mode - Enables fullscreen editing mode
Insert
- Link - Insert Hyperlink
- KB link doc - Insert Link Doc
- KB include doc - Insert Include Doc
- Anchor - Inserts an anchor tag at the cursor
- 'To the top' link - Insert a link to the top of the page
- KB attachments - Upload or insert KB attachments
- Image - Displays a pop-up to insert an image from a source URL. For images hosted within a KB attachment folder, use the KB attachments option
- Media - Opens pop-up to embed media with a specified link
- Collapsible panel - Insert a collapsible panel
- Button - Insert a link styled as a button
- Feedback form - Insert a custom feedback form
- Insert/Edit iframe - Opens iframe pop-up, which allows you to embed another document into your current document
- Import from url - Imports HTML from an external webpage
- Horizontal Line - Inserts a horizontal line
- Table - Inserts a table with specified columns and rows
Table
The table sub-menu allows insertion and editing of tables in documents. The options available when a table is selected are also available by right clicking an existing table within a doc. Within this sub-menu, you have several options:
- Table - Select the table size using the grid to insert at the cursor
- Cell - Edit cell properties, merge, and split cells
- Row
- Insert Row after - Inserts a row after the selected row
- Insert Row Before - Inserts a row before the selected row
- Delete Row - Deletes the selected row
- Row Properties - Opens the row Properties menu, which allows you to change:
- Row type
- alignment
- height
- border style
- border color
- Cut Row - Cuts the selected row to the clipboard
- Copy Row - Copies the selected row to the clipboard
- Paste Row Before - Pastes row before the selected row
- Paste Row After - Pastes row after the selected row
- Column
- Insert Column after - Inserts a column after the selected column
- Insert Column Before - Inserts a column before the selected column
- Delete Column - Deletes the selected column
- Cut Column - Cuts the selected column to the clipboard
- Copy Column - Copies the selected column to the clipboard
- Paste Column Before - Pastes column before the selected column
- Paste Column After - Pastes column after the selected column
- Sort
- Sort by Column Ascending - Sorts the table by the selected column in ascending order
- Sort by Column Descending - Sorts the table by the selected column in descending order
- Advanced Sort - Opens advanced sort pop-up, to help with advanced table sorting
- Table Properties - opens pop-up with options to change table width, height, cell spacing, cell padding, border width, caption,border styling, and colors
- Delete Table - Deletes the selected table
Format
- Bold - Marks the highlighted text as bold
- Italics - Italicizes highlighted text
- Strikethrough - Strikes through highlighted text
- Superscript - Creates text above the current line
- Subscript - Creates text below the current line
- Checklist- Inserts an unordered checklist with checkable boxes
- Code - Adds code styling to selected text
- Formats
- Blocks - Paragraph, preformatted, and heading options
- Align - Opens text alignment menu, allowing you to align highlighted text to the left, right, or center of the page, or to justify the text to the center (no alignment)
- Line Height - Opens line height/line spacing menu
- Text Color - Allows selection of text color
- Background Color - Allows selection of text background color
- Clear Formatting - Clears formatting on selected text
Tools
- Source Code - See Source Code
- Accessibility Checker- Displays any accessibility errors on the document
- Content restriction - Allows you to restrict access to the document
- Content restore - Allows you to restore document fields from the revision history
- Edit other document fields - This allows you to edit fields such as the doc title, keywords, and summary
- Spellcheck - See Spellcheck
- Spellcheck Language - Set which language to check spellings for
- Word Count - Displays document word count
Help
Opens a pop-up window with sections of information for:
- Handy Shortcuts - Displays all the editor-related keyboard shortcuts
- Keyboard Navigation - Instructions on how to activate and use a keyboard to navigate around the editor
- Plugins - Links to KB User's Guide or TinyMCE documentation for the various editor plugins
- Version - Displays the current editor version number
Tool Bar
The toolbar contains a few unique buttons. However, most of the buttons on the bar are for quick access to functions already described in the navigation bar. The toolbar functions are as follows:
- Undo- Undo edits or revisions made to the document
- Redo- Restore/redo edits made to the document
- Bold- Bold desired text
- Italic I - Italicize desired tex
- Underline - Underline desired text
- Striketrough - Crosses out text to indicate removal or deletion.
- Align Left- Aligns text to the left margin.
- Align Center- Centers text horizontally.
- Alight Right - Aligns text to the right margin.
- Decrease Indent- Removes an indent level
- Increase Indent- Increases the indent level, similar to the tab key in other text editors
- Numbered List- Inserts a numbered (ordered) list. The dropdown gives several ordered list options
- Bulleted List- Insert a bulleted (unordered) list. The dropdown gives several unordered list options
- Text Color - Changes the color of the text.
- Highlight Text - Adds a background color to text.
- Clear Formatting- Clear formatting
- Page Break - Inserts a break to start a new page.
- Special Characters - Insert symbols that are not on the keyboard.
- Emojis - Adds expressive icons to text.
- Fullscreen- Expands to view content in full-screen mode.
Document Preview: Displays a preview of the document.
- Insert/Edit Image- See Image
- Insert/Edit Media- See Media
- Insert/Edit Link- Insert or edit a web link
- Anchor - Inserts an anchor tag at the cursor
- Note: Depending on your screen width, some, or all, of the table, link, image, media, fullscreen, source code, and plugin icons may be hidden behind the More button:
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