Formatting Pasted Text

When pasting text from another application, you have two options—both are found in the middle row of your content editor toolbox. If you are copying text and want to remove any formatting or layout, it is best to use the Paste as Text tool (has a “T” on it). If you are copying text and want to keep its format and layout, it is best to use the Paste from Word tool (has a “W” on it).

To use these tools, first highlight the text you wish to paste and select Ctrl+C. Then click on the appropriate paste tool in the content editor toolbox. This will open a display box. Use CTRL+V on your keyboard to paste the text into the box. Then click the Insert button at the bottom of the screen. This will place your text into your content field, with or without formatting—depending on what tool you used.

Once you paste your text into the content field, you can format it using the tools found in your content editor toolbox. There are tools for changing your font family and size, as well as bolding, italicizing, underlining, and aligning your text (all of these are found on the top row of your toolbox). There are also tools for indenting your text and creating bulleted or numbered lists (found in the middle row of your toolbox). In addition, you can create tables to organize your content into (found on the bottom row). For more information about the tools available in your content editor toolbox, download the Getting Started Guide.

To get all your text to display as the same font, highlight it all and then click on the Font family drop-box to select the font you wish to use. The same thing goes for the Font size drop-box. If after doing this your font still doesn’t display correctly, you may need to open the HTML code and change it manually. Sometimes when you paste formatted text from another application, the HTML of your pasted content can override your font sizes. To correct this, click on the HTML tool in the middle row of your toolbox and scan through the HTML code until you come to “Font Size.” Then change whatever is after it to a numbered font size—such as “10px” or “12px.” For example, you may see “Font-size: x-small” where it should be reading “Font-size: 10 px.”

Using Tables on Your Site

Many websites use hidden tables to help layout their page. You can’t actually see the tables because they have set their borders to 0 pixels. The bottom row of tools in your content editor toolbox will help you create these tables.

Tables can take up an entire page or you can have several smaller tables on a single page. You can even have tables in tables. If you want to put two or more images close to each other, or have them evenly aligned, we recommend using tables to control where they appear.

Once you insert a table on a content page, you can customize its properties. You can specify the number of columns and rows you wish to have, as well as set the alignment, cell padding and spacing, table border, and width and height of the table. There is also an Advanced tab to for additional customization.

Elements of a table:

• Table: A rectangular box that has one or many cells, rows, and/or columns.
• Cell: A single box in a table is called a cell.
• Rows: A series of cells that span from left to right are rows.
• Columns: A series of cells that span from top to bottom are columns.

Which Web browser should I use for netAdventist?

We recommend using Firefox as your Web browser when working in netAdventist. The software was developed around this browser and works best in it. However, we are also working to make sure netAdventist works well in other browsers too. netAdventist is now verified to work in Internet Explorer 7, and we are currently working on Internet Explorer 8. Google Chrome will be verified eventually as well.

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Publisher: Office of Global Technology & Software, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Director: John Beckett
Editor: Nicole M. Batten