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Welcome => Rules and News => FAQs => Topic started by: lillred on October 19, 2008, 05:38:19 AM
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I really wanted to include italics etc but everytime I copy/paste or upload it standardises everything...i s there a way to change it?
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Are you talking about AC the site?
Everything you need is right there when you post. Right underneath the box where you post the story it will have all of those buttons.
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I have switched on the MCE editor but it isnt giving me any styles in the drop down menu
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Italtics, bold, etc aren't listed in a drop down. They're just like on this forum, on a toolbar
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It never shows up like that for me. Ever. I've never once had the option of a toolbar. I have to add the coding myself.
lillred, If you don't see a tool bar with a botton to push you can add the code in your text putting <i> in front of the word where you want the italics to start and </i> after the word where you want them to stop...
same with bolding... <b> </b> and so on....
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Kelly, if you go to your Account Info, then Edit Preferences, you can check the box next to "Use tinyMCE WYSWYG editor," and you'll get the toolbar and everything they're talking about.
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I shall give it a shot. Does it work for every internet browser? And every skin?
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As in, does it show up? I think so. Does it work? Meh. I think it's a pain in the ass; it always seems to mess up my formatting more than it fixes it, probably because I use Word. I just use the regular box and type in my own coding when I need to.
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hmm. I just saved it in preferences, and I still don't see any tool bars showing up... maybe I'll try another skin and see if that makes a difference. I usually have it on the crayons one but I've noticed that not everything works on that one. Like, the featured story box never shows up on the front page on the crayons layout...
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Oh really? That could be. I'm usually on the FireDark one, and it shows up on there.
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I just switched to that one too and still see no difference. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, or maybe it's a Safari thing... who knows. Anyway, I always have to just use the coding. It's a pain, but it can be done.
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That's weird. I have alway had the toolbox show up since Chaos had changed the settings forever ago. Before that I used to use the coding which was a pain.
The formatting always does screw up for me too, especially if I have to center something.
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That little tool box saves my life!
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k, I just need to rant really quick about how much I hate that I have to enter my own html code when posting stories on AC...
I was posting a chapter that has a lot of inner thoughts and flashbacks, so there's lot's of bold and italics, right? I spend FOREVER going through the chapter adding them all in in the right places, and then when I hit the add chapter button, only half of my chapter is there. Grrrr!!!! So I had to go back and add the second half the chapter and re-do all the html for that half of the chapter. Again, took FOREVER. SO I go to post it again, and somehow this time it had taken out all the paragraphs. The entire second half the story was all one giant paragraph!! GRRRRRR! So I had to go in and edit AGAIN and add all the paragraph separations which took me... you guessed it... FOREVER!!!!!!!
SO I guess my question is, is there an easier way to add bold and italics than filling in the html code?
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Maybe add it from the beginning and then copy and paste from something other than word. I used to have to do that.
But the tiny toolbar is my hero!
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I dunno, I hate doing the italics and such too! I think that's why I still haven't finished posting my old story You'll Never Walk Alone, cause a lot of it uses italics in the later part of the story. Just thinking of going through and putting the stupid <*i> before and after all that makes me twitch!
The tiny toolbar would be easier, but it never seems to work right for me, probably because I use Word. It just messed up the formatting rather than making it easier to format LOL.
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If you click on the use tiny MSE button all those things should happen automatically.
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I copy directly from word too and it's true, I also have to go back and fix the formatting but it only takes a second. The only thing that messes up for me is the title centering so I always just have to rehighlight and left center everything again.
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I'll have to try again next time I post something. I got too frustrated with it a long time ago and gave up LOL. Adding the tags is a hassle, but at least I can pretty much guarantee the chapter will look the way I want it to when I post it.