Editing

When you edit a document, look below the edit box for basic formatting help. You can use the preview button to test your formatting changes without saving; use the back button in your browser to return from the preview screen to the edit screen.

When you are done, make sure the "Release Edit Lock" button is checked (it probably is already) and then hit Save. If you have unchecked the Release Edit Lock button, the topic will remain locked for an hour. Note that if you have a topic open for editing but don't do anything for an hour, the system will assume you have abandoned your edits and allow others to come in and edit the topic.

Add other stuff here, this is just a start... -- RonSwartzer - 14 Jul 2005

Only one person is allowed to edit a document at a time. The name of the person that is currently editing will pop up when you click the Edit button. A user can have the edit lock for 1 hour, so when working in a large group it is a good idea to write all of your thoughts down in a Word document before transferring it to the Wiki server. Then copy and paste your work into the Wiki edit window. Also make sure that you press the Save button when you are done, otherwise there may be people sitting and waiting until you are done.

Also remember there is no spell check so this will also help out with spelling errors.

-- KatieVolk - 18 Jul 2005

To see who has most recently edited the page you can look in the upper right-hand corner of the page. It will say the person’s username, the version, the date, ant the time that the article was edited.

-- KatieVolk - 21 Jul 2005

Adding Links To Other Sites

If you want to add a link to the wiki all you have to do is type in the entire address so if you want to go to wou.edu page, you would type in http://www.wou.edu and it would show up as http://www.wou.edu.

If you want to make the link appear as just regular words, except for being blue, instead of giving the whole address on the page, put the address and whatever you want to be the link in brackets and then put another set of brackets around those.

For example if you want a link to google, you would need to type in [[http://www.google.com][Link to Google]] and it will appear on the page as Link to Google

-- RichardMansker - 11 Aug 2005
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