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Using Rich Text Editor

The rich text editor is included with the eXelearning software. Using the rich text editor you enter your content as you would if you were using any standard word processing type application. Formatting of your content at this stage is relatively simple and the editing toolbar located above each editable frame provides some basic formatting, searching and linking functionality.

With this tool you can arrange many operations like to insert a picture, a video, a link etc. Anyway, for multiemdia files there are also specific iDevices and more information are provided in the course number 5.

Here below it's the reach editor as it appears when you are in the Authoring frame and you have a free text iDevice open for editing:

reach text editor

The the iDevice rich text editor is provided with the following buttons:

image:exe-edit-toolbar.png

Each button activate a command that helps you to manage the text and the result is live presented in the same frame. Here following are listed all the button functionalities:

image:Exe-rte-clear.png Clear field content
image:Exe-rte-fontstyle.png Font styles: bold, italic, and underlined
image:Exe-rte-fontsize.png Font size selection menu
image:Exe-rte-fontfamily.png Font family selection menu
image:Exe-rte-fontcolor.png Text and text background colors
image:Exe-rte-supersub.png Font styles: subscript and superscript
image:Exe-rte-textalign.png Text alignment: left, center, right, and full
image:Exe-rte-lists.png Lists: unordered and ordered
image:Exe-rte-dent.png Text margins: outdent and indent
image:Exe-rte-anchor.png Anchor: insert an anchor for internal linking (via the chain text-link button); only supported in exports of type Web Site

See Including more Anchors for internal Navigation Links for more details

image:Exe-rte-cutcopypaste.png Cut and copy to, and paste from, clipboard
image:Exe-rte-pastespecial.png Paste clipboard as text, and paste from Word (to cleanup Word formatting)
image:Exe-rte-help.png Help button for TinyMCE, the rich text editor
image:Exe-rte-image.png Image: insert an image into your content (to link to a URL or to embed a file); or edit its properties

See Including Images for more details

image:Exe-rte-media.png Media: insert a media clip into your content (to link to a URL or to embed a file); or edit its properties

See Including Multi-Media, Audio and Video for more details

image:Exe-rte-maths.png Math: generate or edit an embedded math image using LaTeX (see mimetex's LaTeX tutorial )

See Including Mathematical Graphics (using LaTeX) for more details

image:Exe-rte-rule.png Insert an advanced horizontal rule
image:Exe-rte-table.png Insert a table
image:Exe-rte-tableformat.png Table properties: row and cell
image:Exe-rte-trow.png Table rows: insert row before or after, or delete
image:Exe-rte-tcol.png Table columns: insert column before or after, or delete
image:Exe-rte-tablehead.png Table: split and merge
image:Exe-rte-link.png Text Link: insert a link (to an external URL, an internal anchor, or to embed an attachment file); or edit its properties; or remove the link (via the broken-chain button)

See Including Links and Attachments for more details

image:Exe-rte-do.png Undo and Redo edits or formatting
image:Exe-rte-symbols.png Insert a custom character symbol
image:Exe-rte-html.png HTML raw source editor (advanced users only)
image:Exe-rte-erase.png Remove formatting from selected text

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