Format toolbar can be displayed with Window : Toolbars : Format (you need to turn on the Middle or higher level for this to work):
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Figure: The Format toolbar docked at the learnbar
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Figure: The Format toolbar docked at the toolbar dock
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Figure: A floating Format toolbar is neither docked at the learnbar nor at the toolbar dock. Floating toolbars can be placed at any place on the screen
Here is the use of individual buttons:
- Menu buttons - open menus otherwise available with right-click over the element display area and over individual components:
- Element menu (Alt+F10) - open the element menu with operations related to the currently displayed element
- Component menu (Alt+F12) - open the current component menu with operations related to the current component
- Copy element - copy the currently displayed element to the clipboard
- Paste element - paste the element from the clipboard (the element is added as a new element to the current concept group in the current collection)
- Delete element (Shift+Ctrl+Del) - delete the currently displayed element (and all its children if any)
- Text attribute buttons - change properties of texts in the currently selected component:
- Bold font (Ctrl+B) - change the bold attribute of the font in text components or in a rich text component selection
- Italics font (Ctrl+I) - change the italics attribute of the font in text components or in a rich text component selection
- Underlined font (Ctrl+U) - change the underline attribute of the font in text components or in a rich text component selection
- Font - change the font in the current text component or in the current selection of the rich text component
- Font color - change the color of the font in the current text component or in the current selection of the rich text component
- Increase font size (Ctrl+]) - increase the size of the font in a text component or the size of the selected text in a rich text component
- Reduce font size (Ctrl+[) - decrease the size of the font in a text component or the size of the selected text in a rich text component
- Subscript - change the selected text to subscript (only in HTML components)
- Superscript - change the selected text to superscript (only in HTML components)
- Align left - align the selected text to the left
- Align center - center the selected text
- Align right - align the selected text to the right
- Bullets (Shift+Ctrl+L) - convert the currently selected text to a bulleted text (only in rich text and HTML components)
- Numbering - convert the currently selected text to a numbered list (only in HTML components)
- Outdent - outdent the selected text (only in HTML components)
- Indent - indent the selected text (only in HTML components)
- Component color - change the color of the currently selected component
- Alignment and size - makes it possible to size and align all components that are currently in the editing or dragging mode
- Save as default template - save the current layout and component attributes as a template for future use in other elements in the current concept group
- Apply template (Shift+Ctrl+M) - apply a previously saved template to the current element
- Component display mode buttons - change the way the components are displayed and acted upon:
- Presentation mode (Esc) - set all components in way they will be seen by the student during repetitions
- Editing mode (Alt+click) - set all components in the mode that makes it possible to edit texts, edit OLE objects, etc.
- Dragging mode (Alt+double click) - set all components in the mode that makes dragging and sizing possible
- Switch mode (Ctrl+E) - switch from presentation to editing to drag&size mode