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Text Box Editor
The Text Box Editor presents controls for
entering and formatting text, equations, and multimedia
files. When it is enabled, it appears throughout the system
as the default editor when adding text through a text box.
If the Text Box Editor does not appear, first check the
list of browsers below to ensure that the current browser
is compatible and that the correct version has been installed.
If it is, check that the Text Box Editor is enabled through
Personal Settings.
Macintosh Users: Please note that Blackboard
7 does not support Macintosh Users as fully as previous
Blackboard versions have. There have been instances where
text created in Macintosh-based word processing programs
and then cut and pasted into the Text Box Editor have not
appeared. When the same text was saved first in a Windows-based
program, then pasted in to the Text Box Editor, the problem
was resolved.
Browsers
Blackboard users can use any of the following
web browsers with Blackboard 7:
Safari
Safari users will not have the same functionality when
using the Text Box Editor feature in Blackboard 7. When
run on Safari, the Visual Text Box Editor Lite Version appears.
The Lite Version does not include the button controls for
several features because Safari does not yet support those
rich-text editing features. Some features that are not accessible
from a button in the Lite Version may still be activated
using keyboard shortcuts. For example, the cut, copy, and
paste functions may still be used through the keyboard shortcuts.
Macintosh users may also download and use the free Mozilla
Firefox 1.0 (or higher)Web Browser to use all the features
of the Text Box Editor.
Firefox
Firefox users must perform an extra step to enable the cut,
copy, and paste functions. The first time an attempt is
made to cut, copy, or paste text in the Visual Text Box
Editor, a message from Firefox will appear explaining that
the action is not allowed. A link is provided for information
on how to enable the cut, copy, and paste functions by editing
a Firefox configuration file. The link currently points
to: http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/securityprefs.html.
Please check with Firefox for the most up-to-date information
on using rich-text tools for cut, copy, and paste. Macintosh
users may find that this does not fully resolve the problem,
particularly because Firefox does not permit pasting text
from Microsoft Office files on Mac. To accomplish this task,
paste the text into a basic text editor, such as TextEdit
or Notepad and then paste the text into the Visual Text
Box Editor.
Please refer to section on Text Box Editors in the Blackboard
Manual (available via the Control Panel) for more information.
Multimedia and the Text Box Editor
Users may add the following Multimedia files when authoring
content in the Text Box Editor:
Please refer to section on Insert Multimedia in the Blackboard
Manual (available via the Control Panel) for more information.
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