Agreements: Menu & Toolbar Options

Created by Yevhenii Holub, Modified on Fri, 14 Jun at 11:58 AM by Yevhenii Holub

The editor has two bars of buttons: the upper navigation bar and the lower toolbar.

  • Menu Bar
    • File
    • Edit
    • View
    • Insert
    • Format
    • Tools
    • Help
  • Tool Bar
    • Tool Bar Buttons
    • Table Information

Menu Bar

Image of the TinyMCE 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
    • Headings - Headings options: Heading 2, Heading 3, Heading 4, and Heading 5
    • Inline - Controls for bold, italics, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and code formatting
  • 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:

  • Undoundo toolbar icon- Undo edits or revisions made to the document
  • Redoredo toolbar icon- Restore/redo edits made to the document
  • Boldbold toolbar icon- Bold desired text
  • Italic  Italicize desired tex
  • Underline - Underline desired text
  • Striketrough - Crosses out text to indicate removal or deletion.
  • Align Leftleft align toolbar icon- Aligns text to the left margin.
  • Align Centercenter align toolbar icon- Centers text horizontally.
  • Alight Right - Aligns text to the right margin.
  • Decrease IndentDecrease indent toolbar icon- Removes an indent level
  • Increase Indentincrease indent toolbar icon- Increases the indent level, similar to the tab key in other text editors
  • Numbered Listnumbered list dropdown toolbar icon- Inserts a numbered (ordered) list. The dropdown gives several ordered list options
  • Bulleted Listbulleted list dropdown toolbar icon- 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 FormattingClear text formatting toolbar icon- 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.
  • Fullscreenfullscreen mode toolbar icon- Expands to view content in full-screen mode.
  • Document Preview: Displays a preview of the document.

  • Insert/Edit ImageInsert/Edit image toolbar icon- See Image
  • Insert/Edit Mediainsert/edit media toolbar icon- See Media
  • Insert/Edit LinkInsert/Edit link toolbar icon- 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: tinymce editor more toolbar icon


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