For basic text editing, the text editor works very much like a wordprocessor. You type text into the main area of the page, and can format it using the formatting buttons.

Pasting text

If you paste text in from a wordprocessor, the formatting will be carried over too. If you do not want the formatting incuded:

1. Paste the text into the Windows Notepad application.
2. Copy the text in the Notepad application
3. Paste this text into the Text Editor

This works becuase the Notepad application does not understand the formatting, and so strips it from the text

Locking

Note that whilst you are editing the page it will be locked for editing. This prevents any changes you are making from being lost: people can still view the page, but if they try to edit it they will not be able to, but will be told who is editing the page (unless they have greater permissions than you, in which case they can choose to override the lock, in which case you may loose your changes)

Saving or abandoning changes

When you have finshed, you can either save your changes by clicking on the  icon, or abandon them by just closing the window.

Reverting to the Current version

This is the same as abandoning changes, and then re-opening the text editor

To revert to the current version:

1. Click the  icon

Reverting to the Previous version

This abandons any changes being made, and shows the text editor with the contnts that was pubished on the site previous to what is currently published. It provides an 'undo' function to get back to the previous version of the page.

To revert to the previous version:

1. Click the icon