The administrator of the WetPaint site decides who has and who doesn't have status as a writer.
So the first step is confirming that you have status as a writer. Sign in to the site and if an EasyEdit button appears in the upper left hand corner, you can continue with this tutorial. If it doesn't appear, contact the Site Administrator.

Caution: WetPaint consistently does not work well with the latest version of Internet Explorer, so you might want to switch to another browser.

Jump to the Intermediate Level, I know how to do the basics.

Beginning to Edit: Text

When you click on the EasyEdit button, the EasyEdit toolbar appears.




The text tools available on the toolbar will be familiar to all of you.

TASKS
1. So take a minute, open this page (if it isn't already open, you can find a link on the Home page), click on the EasyEdit button, type a sentence below and try out the text formatting tools.

Trying out the Easy Edit tutorial.

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2. The page layout tools are also familiar, so take a minute and try them out in the section you previously created.

3. Click Save on the EasyEdit Toolbar and your changes appear.

TIP: WetPaint can be fussy when you want to reposition text by cutting and pasting into a new location on an IBM, so learn the following IBM shortcuts Control C to copy and Control V to paste.



To add a link, highlight the word or image, you wish to make into a link and click the Link button . The following window will open:


If you want to link to a web page outside of WetPaint, copy the URL and paste it into Link to: box.

If you want to link to another page already created in this wiki, click on the Find Page button and all current content is listed.

Click Add Link and you are done. To test the link, click Save on the EasyEdit Toolbar and the link should take you to another page.






To add a table to the page, the Table button opens the following menu. Notice the red line, this is not the default setting but changing to "Fit to Page" means that no matter how large the reader's screen is the table will always fill the page.




Return to the Home page or Continue the tutorial by using the options below:

Beginning to Edit: Images

Beginning to Edit: Add a New Page