Advanced content editing
Sometimes the online editor is unable to properly control the styles applied to page content, especially if the content has been pasted into the editor from an Office application such as Microsoft Word. The CMS provides methods for editing, reformatting and sanitising the source HTML code of a page without the online editor.
How to paste content from Word without proprietary formatting.
This is the recommended way to use cut/paste from Microsoft Word. It will preserve most of the structure of the text but remove Word styles that aren't required by CMS. From the online page editor:
- Position the cursor where you want to paste the new content.
- Click on
on the toolbar. - Copy the content from your Word document.
- Click into the white box in the paste from word window and press Control-V (paste).
- Tick both options.
- Press 'OK'. Your page is updated with the new content.
The following methods are available for altering content that is already in the CMS.
Warning: the following options should only be used by someone familiar with HTML source code editing!
How to edit page HTML source code
To edit the raw HTML source code for a page:
- Enter the page editor as normal.
- Click on
Source View. - Edit the HTML and click on again to update the page.
Note: the editor will attempt to fix XHTML errors in the source code when leaving source view.