Additional Features in Edit Mode
When you click âedit this pageâ or the âeditâ link for a section, the pageâs format changes.
Edit Toolbar
At the top of the page when youâre in editing mode, you see the edit toolbar (Figure A-2).
Figure A-2. The edit toolbar is always just above the edit box, near the top of the page. If youâre not sure what an icon does, just move your mouse pointer to one of the icons and see what the tooltip says.
Most icons on the toolbar work in either of two ways:
If you select text and then click an icon, then you format the selected text.
If you donât select any text, then when you click on an icon, the software adds and formats some sample text for you, highlighting it so you can be replace it with your own text.
Exceptions to this are the signature icon, the horizontal line, the line break, and the table insertion icon, which arenât formatting actions. Instead, they insert specific text into the edit box, wherever the cursor is.
Note
Donât highlight text before clicking the table icon, because the resulting table is probably going to be too simple for your needs. See Creating Tables for more detail on creating tables.
One preference lets you hide the edit toolbar if you never use it (see Figure 20-9, fifth option). If you havenât turned the toolbar off, but you donât see it, or it doesnât function correctly, then you may not have JavaScript ...
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