How to edit text in Drupal 6 with TinyMCE libraries in WYSIWYG module

A quick overview for the League of Women Voters - DeKalb County - on how to edit text in drupal.

• The Basics
• Lists & Indentation
• Copy & Paste
• Links (for full instructions, see Oregon State's tutorial)
• Images (for full instructions, see Oregon State's tutorial)
• Tables (for full instructions, see Oregon State's tutorial)
• Find & Replace
• Editing Code

The Basics

The first two buttons are for Bold, and Italics. Use these sparingly.

Using Format, you can select which level of heading is used. Most of the time you will use headings 3 and 4, though headings 5 and 6 are there should you need them. Headings should not be used to achieve a certain styling, but to provide an outline for the page.

The Insert custom character button allows you to browse a handful of custom characters, like the degree symbol or letters in a foreign language, and insert them into your page.

Spellchecker should be used every time you create a page. Just press the button, and it checks your whole page for misspelled words.

Lists and Indentation

The first button inserts an unordered list, while the second button adds an ordered number list.

Also in this toolbar are buttons for indentation. Outdent decreases the indentation by one level, while Indent increases the indent.

Cut, Copy, and Paste

Cut removes the selected content from your page, allowing you to paste it. Using the Copy button, you can select anything on your page and copy it for later use. Paste, of course, allows you to paste what you copied.

Clean up messy code is a valuable tool to clean up your HTML code. It is mainly used when you copy content from an outside source.

The remove formatting is the all-in-one tool to remove custom styles to your text, like Bold and Italics. It also removes hidden code relating to text formatting.

By clicking Undo, you can undo any change you make, while Redo reverses your Undo.

Linking

The following buttons are for hyperlinking. Please review the creating a link tutorial for a full explanation on how to use these buttons.

Insert/edit image

Clicking on this button adds a new image or edits an existing image. See adding an image for more information.

Tables

See the tables tutorial for more information on working with tables.

Find (and replace)

This handy tool valuable in larger pages. When you click on this button, you can search for anything inside your page. The Replace tab allows you to search for something and replace it with another. For example, searching for "website" and replacing it with "Web site." Match case allows you to search for an exact match, including capitalizations.

Editing Code

By using the Edit HTML source button, you can view the actual HTML code of your page and edit it as you wish. This is only recommended for advanced users with knowlege of HTML.