Content Editor Toolbar

The toolbar has many very important tools to make sure your pages are clean and consistent with the rest of the site.

Full Content Toolbar

This page breaks the toolbar down row by row, but the most important icons to know are the following (also in bold below):

  • Paste Plain Text (first row, "W" over clipboard) - Your new best friend! ALWAYS use this when pasting content from somewhere else. NEVER Ctrl+V or paste content directly into the content editor.
  • Hyperlink Manager (first row, globe with link) - Insert a link to an external page or for an email. Select "New Window" in the Target dropdown for all external links. (For internal links, use the last button on the fourth row of the toolbar.)
  • Bullet List (second row, bullets with lines)
  • New Paragraph (middle of last row, backward P with + sign) - Use this to start new paragraphs. Do not just click Enter or Return once or twice to start a new paragraph.

 

Row 1

Toolbar Row 1

  • Spellchecker - Always a useful tool!
  • Find and Replace - Useful if you misspelled something through a page and need to fix it (or if you used the wrong formatting for something like a phone number!).
  • Cut
  • Copy
  • Paste from Word - This is a way to paste without losing some of your formatting. HOWEVER, it often still brings over unwanted code. Do not use this unless you are comfortable using the HTML view to see if any code has been brought over.
  • Paste Plain Text - Your new best friend! ALWAYS use this when pasting content from somewhere else. NEVER Ctrl+V or paste content directly into the content editor.
  • Undo
  • Redo
  • Image Manager - Insert an image. Make sure to upload new images into the right folder.
  • Media Manager - Rarely used.
  • Document Manager - Upload a document.
  • Insert External Video - Embed a video from Manatee County's YouTube. Make sure you don't copy the link from your browser's URL bar. Click "Share" beneath the video and copy that link.
  • Hyperlink Manager - Insert a link to an external page or for an email. Select "New Window" in the Target dropdown for all external links. (For internal links, use the last button on the fourth row of the toolbar.)
  • Remove Link - Highlight the text from which you want to remove a link and then click this button.
  • Bold
  • Italics
  • Underline - You should never underline text. It makes it look like a link.
  • Strikethrough
  • Superscript
  • Subscript

Row 2

Toolbar second row

  • Convert to lower case
  • Convert to upper case
  • Numbered list - Only use when you are outline specific steps that are in an order and should be numbered
  • Bullet List
  • Indent - Useful for indenting a secondary bullet in a list
  • Outdent
  • Align Left - As a rule, all text should be aligned left unless otherwise approved.
  • Align Center
  • Align Right
  • Insert Table - Please ask Site Administrators for guidance on inserting tables.
  • Insert Form Element - Please ask Site Administrators for guidance on inserting forms.
  • Insert Symbol

 

Row 3

Toolbar 3

  • Format Stripper - Another way to remove formatting carried over from pasting incorrectly. You shouldn't need to use this as long as you paste using plain text!.
  • Paragraph Style - Use this to insert headers (Heading 2, Heading 3). Don't use Heading 1, it's for page title only. Otherwise all text should be "Normal"
  • Size - No need to use this
  • Real Font Size - No need to use this
  • Apply CSS Class - No need to use this
  • Print
  • New Paragraph - Use this to start new paragraphs. Do not just click Enter or Return once or twice to start a new paragraph.
  • Horizonatal Rule - Please ask Site Administrators for guidance before using.
  • Help - Explains toolbar icons
  • Zoom - No need to use this
  • Toggle Full Screen Mode
  • Module Manager- No need to use this
  • PageLink - Unfortunately, we can no longer use this button for internal links until CivicLive makes an update to the way this part of the CMS functions.