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Troubleshooting the text editor

At first blush most users will automatically recognise the functionality of most of the buttons in the WYSIWYG editor toolbar. This is because they are very similar to the buttons that occur in Word. However the rules that these buttons apply to the content are not necessarily the same. Some users find the editor frustrating because their standard practices that they use in Word just won't work when creating web pages.  This resource provides some hints on best practice, as well as ways to avoid and recover from trouble.

 

If you plan to use Word to create your content before publishing it on your website we strongly recommend that you use the same rules and tools in Word that you use in the web editor. Namely if you create a Word document only using the bold, italic, numbered and ordered list buttons, and only style the text using the format dropdown you will be surprised how easily the content can cut and paste directly into your website.

If you are using the current verion of MS Word (MS Word 2007) to paste in your content directly into the text editor please make sure to click the "paste as plain text" icon  before pasting your content. This is because the current edition of MS word also pastes in it's own code that cannot be correctly read by web browsers and results in gibberish being output onto your website.

Other Resources

• editing and styling text
• adding and removing hyperlinks
• inserting images
• inserting and formatting tables
• other editor features