Working with text

Text font and size

You can change the appearance of text by changing its font or size. Select a font or size from the available options. Depending how your site administrator has set up fonts and styles on your site, some options may not be available. Wider use of Cascading Style Sheets also will limit the selection of texts for content providers.

Text variations

You can change text style to bold, italic, or underlined. Other text styles include strikethrough, emphasis, strong, and fixed width. Note: Emphasis and Strong apply the same style as Italic and Bold, but use different HTML tags. Your website administrator determines which tag Contribute actually inserts.

Headings, Paragraphs and Styles

If your site has fully adopted Cascading Style Sheets, you will have the options to set text as a heading (6 different sizes), as paragraph text, or use a custom style. Custom styles must be added to your site by the site administrator.

Alignment, indenting, and lists

You can choose any of four text alignment options: Left, Center, Right, and Justify. To change text alignment, highlight your text and click one of the alignment buttons in the toolbar (or select an alignment from the pop-up menu).

In Contribute you can use the toolbar to indent or outdent text. You can indent or outdent text multiple times to create more or less space at the beginning of the text. This feature indents or outdents the entire paragraph -— not just the first line of the paragraph.

You can create numbered lists, bulleted lists, and definition lists in Contribute. You can also create sublists within your lists.

Creating numbered lists

You can use numbered lists to organize information that needs to be in order. You can apply numbering as you create the list, or you can add numbering to an existing list.

Creating bulleted lists

Use bulleted lists to organize information that does not need to be in order. You can apply bullets as you create the list, or you can add bullets to an existing list.

Creating definition lists

A definition list is a series of items, each with an indented sub-item.

Creating sublists

You can change the level of a numbered or bulleted list item to create a nested list. For example, you might have a bulleted list where one of the bullets has a sublist of bullets. The nested list does not have to be the same type as the parent list; you can have a numbered list with a nested bulleted list. You can have multiple nested lists within your list.

Checking spelling

It’s a good idea to use the Check Spelling command to check the spelling in your draft after you add or edit text.

Click the Check Spelling button in the toolbar or select Format > Check Spelling. If Contribute encounters an unrecognized word, the Check Spelling dialog box appears. 2 Select the appropriate option based on how you want Contribute to handle the discrepancy:

• Click Add to Personal to add the unrecognized word to your personal dictionary. You can add any word, and Contribute will ignore it in the future.
• Click Ignore to ignore this instance of the unrecognized word.
• Click Change to replace this instance of the unrecognized word with text that you type in the Change to text box or with the selection in the Suggestions list.
• Click Ignore All to ignore all instances of the unrecognized word.
• Click Change All to replace all instances of the unrecognized word in the same manner.