Common Reference to Add New Question: Using Text Editor Menus

About menus

When you add new questions, the rich text editor shows a menu bar that enables you to set up advanced settings within the question text, such as to add and manage tabular data.

The text editor shows basic text formatting options. Please see Common Reference to Add New Question: Using Text Editor for more details.

Find the question location

If you want to use the text editor in an existing question, follow the steps below.

Sign into biz:Examiner.
Switch into the ‘author’ role using the role-switcher in the top left corner of the screen. In the sidebar, the ‘Topics and Questions’ option is selected by default.
If one or more topics exist, these appear in a hierarchical structure, as the folders. Locate the topic and the target question.

Using the menus

The ‘Question text’ tab is selected by default.

In the text editing area, a few menu options are available for additional settings for the questions text.

The ‘Edit’ menu

Use this menu for basic text editing actions such as to cut, copy, paste, redo, undo, or to find and replace text.

The ‘View’ menu

Use this menu to see or hide certain types of elements and controls and viewing options. For example, show or hide:

Visible aids
Invisible characters
Blocks

In addition, you can use the ‘View’ menu to:

Run the spell check on the question text
See the preview of question text
See the full-screen view of question text

The ‘Insert’ menu

Use this menu to insert links, images, media files, a code snippet, or a horizontal line. You can also see options to add an anchor tag, the current date and time, and page break.

Please see Common Reference to Add New Question: Add and Manage Images for detailed steps on adding images to the questions.

The ‘Format’ menu

Use this menu for basic text formatting such as to show it in bold, italics, or underline, in superscript, subscript, or as strikethrough. You can also see options to use in-built styles and to set up the text alignment.

The ‘Table’ menu

Use this menu to add a table, and to set up the table for additional rows or columns.

The ‘Tools’ menu

Use this menu to see additional tools, such as to run a spell-checker in the question text.