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Use your email program for spell checks when editing a Manila Story or DG Message. Once you've entered the text, select it all, copy, then paste it into a new email message and run the spell check. When it's been checked, copy and paste the corrected results back into the Manila form and post it.
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If you want to use quotation marks in a story but don't want them to trigger a Shortcut, put a backslash ("\") in front of the first quote. For example, Discuss.
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Too lazy even to click Edit this Page? ;-) You can have an editing form built into your Home Page. Just go to Prefs -> Appearance -> Home Page and select Yes to "Do you want an editing form on the home page?". Now you can edit the Home Page without leaving it.
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Use more than one browser window for fasting authoring. Have one showing the Pictures page and a second on Stories. That way you can write new articles and add graphics with fewer keystrokes. Add another third for Preferences -> Advanced if you really like to fly!
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You can use shortcuts in your Navigation XML like this:
<item name="PageX" shortcut="This Is Page X"/>
Easier to read, methinks (sorry, finally saw "Shakespeare In Love" last week).
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Put an anchor just after the macro or <body> tag in your template. Add a Shortcut named Top - or whatever you like - with a destination of #pagetop (no http://). Whenever you want a link to the top of a page, just use the Top Shortcut.
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Use the macro to show the user's name and login status on a Manila page. Like this: Jon Doe is logged in..
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Add the Create A New Story (.../discuss/edit/newStory) and Create a New Picture (.../pictures/edit/newPicture) links to your browser's custom tool bar for quick access.
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To keep Manila from making an email address active, put the escape character ("\") in front of the "@". That way you get Me@KenDow.Com instead of Me@KenDow.Com.
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Want to flip your Home Page but don't want the Calendar? If you bookmark the flipping (so to speak ;-) URL, you can turn off the Calendar and use that bookmark. The URL is like this:
http://your.server.here/admin/fliphomepage
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While editing a Manila Story or Message, use Select All and Copy (in most browsers) to put a backup on the clipboard. If your browser crashes, you can start it again and then paste the content back in. Of course, if your computer crashes... :-(
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You can link directly to a Manila Picture using this URL format (101 is the Picture number):
http://yoursite.com/picture$101
This is useful for background images in a Manila site. Just replace the macro with <body background="http\://yoursite.com/picture$101">, but remember that your Prefs -> Appearance -> Color settings for Background, Text, Link, Active Link and Visited Link won't work anymore. You'll have to handle them in the <body> tag.
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You can comment out chunks of XML in Navigation Links and Site Structure using the HTML comment element. For example:
<item name=Discuss pagename="/manilaNewbies/discuss/"/>
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You can use ftp and mailto links as Shortcut addresses. For example:
* ftp://ftpsite.com
* mailto:me@kendow.com
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You can use the tag to create simple tables in Manila. For example, the following table uses ordinary text with tabs between columns and a return to start each row.
Head 1 Head 2 Head 3
Item A Item B Item C
Item D Item E Item F
"top"
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