A lot of my fellow Montreal bloggers are switching over to WordPress; either .com or .org, so I have a little trick I learned today that I’d like to share with you all.
If you’re in the visual editor writing a post, you can hit Shift-Alt-V in Firefox or Alt-V in IE and a new set of buttons will magically appear in the editor toolbar, allowing you to:
- Create headings
- Do underlining (but remember, underlining on websites is a Bad Thing)
- Justify
- Change text colour
- Paste in plain text and paste from MS Word
- Remove formatting when you mess up
- Add funky characters (handy if you don’t have a French keyboard)
- Undo / Redo
You are some kind of scary genius. That rocks.
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Ooh, exciting. I tried it, and now I’m going to Shift-Alt-V more often.
Thanks for the tip.
Being a newbie wordpresser yet veteran bloggartiste you can’t begin to believe how exciting this is…
Hmmm. For some reason it doesn’t work for me. It just opens the browser’s View menu (as if I hadn’t even pressed shift). I’m still on 2.0.5. Is that a new feature in 2.1?
I wanted to know why underlining is a bad thing, so I tried to click on it, because it was underlined, but all my hopes of enlightenment that underlined words bring were dashed when my cursor failed to turn into a little pointing hand. And then I realised what underlining is a bad thing.
blork, yes it’s part of the editor upgrade in 2.1, sorry, should’ve mentioned that.
I was reading High Desert Wanderer and he suggested in his blog to come over and pick up this tip. Thanks a lot, I have really been missing my Hot Pink Text!
Oh and blork, 2.0.5 has a couple of security issues, you should at the very least upgrade to 2.0.7, although I recommend making the leap to 2.1.
I plan to upgrade, but I need to back up first, and I haven’t gotten around to it. (For some reason, the automatic backup thingy doesn’t work for me…)
Thank you, thank you, thank you! There have been a few times when I really needed underlining, and it’s a nuisance to have to switch over and hand-code it. This will be a big help!