Tuesday 7 April 2009

Live Writer 4 (Toolbars)

This is part four and for a lot of people totally unnecessary, for people not so hot on computers this post can help to tie together some parts of this tutorial set. I have described your standard screen on Live Writer in this post I will give you screen shots of additional menus that pop up at certain points.

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The first one is your right bar or your task pane, as described in part 3.  This is what shows up when you click on a picture, your picture editing menu.

The Picture Tab shows your alignment to your text; left, right, centre and inline; margins; borders with a quick selection to choose from; a link choice where you can decide where the picture links to.

The Advanced Tab allows options like scaling, which can be done by dragging the picture as well, but for somebody who wants to set exact values that can be done here.  Rotate, crop, contrast, watermark and copyright functions are also here.  Handy for quick alteration but I still tend to prefer this is image editing software.

The Effects tab  gives you simple editing functions for your picture, which is probably better done on GIMP, Photoshop or Windows own photo software.




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Next are the right click menus.  Here is the one for pictures seen as we are on that topic!  The only difference to the standard menu is the “Show properties” selection at the end which simply turns on / off your taskpane.  When the green tick is present your taskpane will be also.

 


toolbar1Your standard toolbar has the four clipboard functions up top, standard things; Select all which highlights everything, pictures, text, headers, tables etc; Hyperlink quick select; quick edit functions – align, numbering, bullets.  The hyperlink on the right click menu is one of the most handy features I find in the program.  It saves me so much time and allows me type out my post highlight what I want to become a hyperlink and then select where they go!




toolbar2Finally is the spell check menu, standard for so many programs.  If a word has a wiggly red line like the example here: spelling , it shows it doesn’t show up in the programs dictionary, right click on it and you will get a menu of possible options it could be.  If its a once-off click the ignore all, if its not in the dictionary click the add to dictionary.  For more detailed options press open spelling dialog.  Just as a tip the red line will never print or show up on your website!

 

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