{"id":42,"date":"2017-02-18T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T19:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/?post_type=chapter&p=42"},"modified":"2017-02-21T00:23:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T05:23:46","slug":"using-the-pressbooks-formatting-toolbar","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/chapter\/using-the-pressbooks-formatting-toolbar\/","title":{"raw":"Using the Pressbooks Formatting Toolbar","rendered":"Using the Pressbooks Formatting Toolbar"},"content":{"raw":"The Pressbooks formatting toolbar should appear familiar to you if you are accustomed to using software such as Microsoft Word. Indeed, many\u00a0of the\u00a0features and icons in Pressbooks (such as for Bolding, Italicization, Alignment, and Indenting) are identical to those in the popular word processing software.\r\n\r\nThe two features that I will briefly highlight here are the use of preformatted headings and special textboxes.\r\n

Headings<\/h1>\r\nA dropdown menu in the toolbar reads \"Paragraph\" by default. However, if you wish to use headings or sub-headings to organize your text, you should use the dropdown menu to select the appropriate level of heading.\r\n

Textboxes<\/h1>\r\nTextboxes\u00a0might be used to contain different information like asides, exercises, and chapter reviews.\r\n\r\nThe\u00a0\u201cTextboxes\u201d dropdown menu allows you to create a variety of types of textboxes, including\u00a0rather straightforward \u201cStandard\u201d or \u201cShaded\u201d textboxes. You may either create a textbox and then enter text into it or you may highlight text and then select the appropriate textbox from the dropdown menu, which places the highlighted text into the textbox.\r\n\r\nThere are also a few specialized textbooks that\u00a0you might want to use. These include Learning Objectives<\/strong> (which typically tell you what the learning outcomes for the chapter are), Key Takeaways<\/strong> (which summarize key points in the chapter), and Exercises<\/strong>, for any exercises or problems that you want to include in the chapter.\r\n\r\nImportant: If you\u00a0go back\u00a0to the \u201cTextboxes\u201d dropdown, you\u00a0will see that all of these special textboxes are available from this menu, but you should not\u00a0activate them here. Rather, you will\u00a0want to use the three buttons in the bottom of the toolbar \u2013 LO for Learning Objectives, KT for Key Takeaways, and EX for Exercises and critical thinking. These are specially designed with special formatting just for us in the Open Textbooks theme.<\/em>\r\n
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