lajsdfhadofashdiaifoaidhfoaishdfoaishdfoiahdfRe: unclesuuu
I never knew about Alt+b combination to bring up the advanced toolbar. They should've made this feature more visible!
Thanks for the tip!
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Which editor do you use?
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I was referring to WordPress.com.
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That alt-B option for the Rich Text Editor is great, I wish I'd known about it sooner. I'm going to have to try out the "Paste from Word" feature to see if it does a good job or not. I like out it gives access to the heading features.
I switch back and forth between the two. The Rich Text Editor eventually annoys me when it keeps strip out unnecessary whitespace that I *WANT* to put in (like say I'm trying to add three blank lines between paragraphs). But I hit a bug with the Basic Editor where if you edit a really long post it doesn't always load the entire post... so if you go to edit something in the beginning you can end up losing a lot of the post.
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I was so impressed with the Alt-B option that I wrote a post about it: http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/wordpress-tips-alt-b/
The "paste from Word" option does a good job of converting Word formatting to HTML! I was shocked.
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I use the WordPress Rich Text Editor, because I'm so retarded it took me three years to learen how to post a picture in a forum. It is pretty clean, although it must be admitted theres are some glitches.
I have done a blog in Word offline and posted it, and I've done a blog live in WordPress, and I have to say the differences are substantial. Use what works for what you want from the blog. A "live" blog is going to be more referance-based; one written offline is going to be more independent and original, just because of the form.
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alt+b Great tip. I was wondering why there wasn't more options. -
Wow!!!! I never knew about this. I switch between the two when editing sometimes, so this is going to be really helpful. I may have to change my rating of WordPress from 9 to 9.5. ;)
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One quick question while we are on this topic ... is it only me that cannot cut and paste while using this editor? I have to go into html editor to do that.
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@unclesuuu:
Thanks for the tip. I've been trying to figure out how to add pi to one of my posts. Adding custom characters is right there in the advanced toolbar.@blumoon
I believe this is the nature of the editor. I used a similar editor with another platform and it behaved the same way. Someone with more technical expertise will have to address why. My extremely wild guess would be a formatting issue. -
Sometimes, because of some weird WordPress glitch, you need to do pastes twice. So don't past and then give up when you don't see it; paste it again, immediately. That works for me.
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Ignore my previous answer. You can copy and paste without going to HTML editor. Use the advanced tool bar. It has a text paste option. Also, see this thread:
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[bluemoon:One quick question while we are on this topic ... is it only me that cannot cut and paste while using this editor? I have to go into html editor to do that.]
Hit Ctrl+v to copy/paste too.
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Window shortcut key is
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That would only work if you are using IE
And 70% of ppl now switched to firefox
and if u Alt-B on firefox it will only go for the Bookmark menu
(which made me clueless for the first 3 minutes)
then later the 6th sense tell me that u guys must still be using the IEand voila...
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Control V works! Thank you.
@ampin: I have Firefox too. The first time I hit alt+B it did go to bookmarks, but somehow miraculously works now.
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YW bluemoon
:) Yes I use Ctrl+v to paste in Fx too.
Alt+b brings up the advanced toolbar in the
visual rich editor as well.
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so u mean u guys can bring the advanced toolbar using fox?
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Yes ampin I sure can. But... it does disappear sometimes, in the middle of drafting a post.
So I just have to alt+b again to make it show.
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ampin: click inside the Rich Text Editor before you hit Alt-B in Firefox.
I use Firefox exclusively, and I've had no prob with Alt-B.
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Just did some testing, the issue is definitely that the Rich Text Editor hasn't taken control of the keyboard input yet because you haven't clicked/typed anything in it yet.
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just did a test
yep u do have to type something first
and then press the alt b
now it works perfectly
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OK Rich txt editing is on, and I have tried both ie, and firefox, and the most I get is bolded type, no extra selections for formating or spell check. Are you folks running beta's of wordpress? I am using 2.0.4
Are you people using a special toolbar or anything like that, maybe I dont have something installed that others do. Just a thought.
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michaelbb: we're using WordPress Multi-user at wordpress.com, not WordPress self-hosted.
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one difference I've noticed between Rich Text Editor and regular editor. Rich Text Editor will strip out the BGCOLOR tags on tables, but regular will leave them in.
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engtech
Thanks, I didnt even think of this when I was prusing through the forums, and made this post.
Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it.Michaelbb
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Hi,
After i installed firefox 2, i can't use keystroke Alt+... on rich text editor, why?
If i press Alt+V, it go to View on firefox 2 menu
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Alt+Shift+V should do the trick in ff2
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Note that Ctrl V doesn't always work in IE. For no reason I can determine, sometimes it simply refuses to paste it in, acting as if nothing's happened. You then need to right-click and paste, which causes the whole post to judder horribly and then bounce you back to the beginning. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.
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Rain, I always click within teh editor box before doing a CTRL-V. That way, it's highlighted.
Hope this helps,
-drmike
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