Handy Tips

 

 

These concepts also work in other editors such as Microsoft Word and FrontPage.

 

 

Ctrl+Q

Repeats
Last Format

After formatting a line or table you may wish to repeat the format on several other lines or tables. Simply put the cursor on the next line or table and press Ctrl+Q. This performs the last formatting action at the new location.

This works for all formats: fonts, styles, alignment, line margins and spacing, table borders, cell properties, etc.

(In Microsoft Word the F4 key does this).

Tables
Position
Graphics

Use tables to align text and graphics side-by-side. That is how this handy tips page is done.

Insert a 2 x 2 table with the Insert new table toolbar button. Click the Format table toolbar button and choose  to remove the black borders. Click the Show outlines of tables that have no borders toolbar button to show the table outline. Click the Table cell properties toolbar button to adjust cell margins and vertical alignment.

 

Change
Default
Font

Fonts and other formatting can be controlled with styles. To change the default font of a document, format a 'Normal' style paragraph with the new font, then click the Update that style based on the current paragraph's formatting update styles toolbar button. This gives all 'Normal' style text the new font. 

To change the default font of all new documents, open a blank doc, do the steps above, then click Save document and check the 'Save as template' checkbox. Save the document to template 'blank doc'.

 

Send a
Link to
Document

The best part of creating documents is sharing them. To get the URL of a published document, click the w symbol next to the document name in the Open files pane. The published document will appear in a new browser window. Click the Address: field at the top of the browser. Type Ctrl+C to copy the URL to the clipboard.

The URL is also shown when you click the Publish document publish drop-down arrow.

Resize

Files

Section

Click and drag the blue border between the files section at the left and the edit section to resize.

The images in the Pictures pane will flow to the right allowing you to see many pictures at once. 

 

 Print
Preview

Click the Publish document publish drop-down arrow. Click the 'Preview in Browser' button within the dialog box. This opens a new browser window showing just your document. Choose the File -- Print Preview... IE menu command in that new browser window.

Edit

HTML

Directly

For Web Wizards, you can view and edit your page's HTML. Click the View Settings button and then click the Edit HTML button.

When done editing, click the Close button at the upper left to return to your document in rich text editing mode.

View Settings