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WYSIWYG Editor Toolbar

OU Campus provides page editing commands with the What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) Editor Toolbar. (User toolbar may vary.)

Cut, Copy, Paste, Spell Check List & Indent Alignment Help
Find Functions Basic Functions Text Functions
File Undo Remove Font Script Link
Functions Redo Formatting Properties Functions Tools

Font Properties

Table Tools Form Tools Insert Misc. Code

Images/ Tools Protect
Media Snippet and Asset
File Functions: Save or revert changes on a page Help: Display the Help window
Cut, Copy, Paste, Find Functions: Find specific content and cut, copy, Font Properties: Define font family, font size, and format for selected
paste, or paste as plain text text, add site-specific styles, and apply font or background colors to text
Undo Redo Functions: Undo/redo changes made on a page Insert Images/Media: Add/edit images and videos on a page
Spell Check: Run spell check on the content. Supports English, French, Misc. Tools: Add horizontal rules, line breaks, special characters, clean
Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
up messy HTML code, toggle invisible elements, and view/modify the
Remove Formatting: Remove all selected text formatting and return the HTML code for a region
text back to the default settings for a page
Code Protect: Displays the position of PHP code within the WYSIWYG
Basic Font Properties: Add bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough to Editor represented by the icon
selected content
List & Indent Functions: Create an ordered list or indent content Snippet: Insert a preconfigured Snippet of code to be used as a template
Text Script Functions: Turn selected content into superscript or Asset: Insert a global Asset
subscript text Table Tools: Create/edit tables within a page
Alignment Functions: Move selected text (left, center, right) or Form Tools: Create/edit forms within a page
justify the text (does not apply to tablesuse table cell props)
Link Tools: Insert/edit links, insert mailto links, and create anchors

Page Actions Toolbar

The Page Actions Toolbar provides tools to edit a page and its properties, preview changes, check links, and perform other functions. More im-
portantly, the Page Actions Toolbar provides the options to publish changes or route them for approval. (User toolbar may vary.)

RSS Items Preview Compare Schedule Send Page

Properties Source Page Publishing for Approval

Edit

Page Check

Revert Backup
Access Publish Page Send Page to User

Edit: Select a page region to edit Access: Modify page access

RSS Items: Add new RSS items that display in any particular RSS Backup: Save a copy of the page to the versioning archives without
feed assigned to the page or edit an existing item publishing the page to the Production Server
Properties: Update any meta data and properties defined on a page Publish Page: Publish page to the Production Server live on the
world wide web
Preview: Show a rendered version of a page before publishing or
sending for approval Schedule Page Publishing: Schedule a page for future publishing
on a certain date and time and receive an optional notification once
Source: Edit HTML source code for the entire page the page is published
Compare: Show proposed page changes with current page, or any Send Page to User: Request another user to look over a page be-
previously published version of a page that has been backed up to fore publishing
the versioning archives
Send Page for Approval: If publishing a page is restricted by the
Page Check: Check the page for spelling, valid links, and W3C vali- administrator, click to send the page to an approver who will review
dation (some or all of these options may be disabled by an adminis- the changes and either publish the page or request further changes
trator) be made. When this option appears, the publish page, schedule page
publishing, and send page to user options do not appear.
Revert: Restore any previously published version of a page or file

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Getting Started Selecting Regions

1. To edit any page, log in by clicking the DirectEdit link Select a region of a page to edit within the WYSIWYG Editor.
(commonly the Date Stamp at bottom of page)

2. Enter Username and Password

Editing Content
Commonly Used Functions:
Begin editing content using the OU Campus WYSIWYG Editor.
Simply edit using the toolbar functions provided at the top of the screen.
Paste as Plain Text: Pastes only text and removes all formatting

Spell Check: Checks the spelling in the region being edited

Remove Formatting: Remove all selected text formatting and return the text
back to the default settings for a page

Insert / Edit Links: Add link or edit link properties to selected content or image

Insert / Edit Images: Add image or edit selected image properties

Insert / Edit Embedded Media: Add media or edit media properties from
various media formats

Insert Snippet: Insert predefined code into the WYSIWYG Editor

Once finished editing, click the SAVE button for additional functions. Insert Asset: Insert a global Asset

Approving/Publishing Pages

After saving a page, the Page Actions Toolbar will be presented with a preview of the page. If there are no further changes, the page is ready to be published.

Depending on user level, choose between:

OR

Before publishing, add an optional message describing page changes.

Doing this makes it easier to view previous revisions of the page and
see what has been changed. Next, click PUBLISH.

Creating Folders/Pages

Click the NEW button at the top-right

corner of the Content > Pages view

To Create a New Empty Folder:

1. Click button and enter name for folder
2. Click CREATE button at bottom of page
To Create a New Page or Section:
1. Click the template desired
2. Enter a name for the page and fill out the
information requested, then click the
CREATE button at the bottom of the page
NOTE: Page templates are created by the
administrator.

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