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VisualEditor

Opening the editor
How to activate editing mode

Toolbar basics
The tools at your disposal

Links and wikilinks
Connect pages up to each other

Publishing changes
Make it so

Creating new articles
Building a page from scratch

Summary
Review of what you've learned

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Screenshot of the VisualEditor toolbar

The VisualEditor toolbar appears at the top of the screen when you begin editing.

The buttons Undo and Redo the changes you have made.

The Paragraph  or Headings  drop-down menu allows you to use standard text formats, for example to create headings and subheadings. Normal text format is called "Paragraph"; the main page sections are called "Heading", and subheadings are "Heading 2", "Heading 3", etc.

The A  drop down menu contains additional formatting options including bold (B), italic (I), underline (U), superscript (x2), and subscript (x2). This formatting is applied to any text that you've selected. For example, an article's subject should be written in bold the first time it is mentioned.

The   allows bulleted and numbered lists, and the Ω menu contains special characters.


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