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USQ Mahara ePortfolio
Learning Systems and Support (LTQ)
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Tips and tricks with Text boxes in Mahara
This tutorial assumes that you know how to drag a Text box block down to your page content area.
Contents
1. The parts of a Text box ............................................................................................................. 2
2. What each of the buttons are in the editor ................................................................................. 5
First row .................................................................................................................................. 5
Second row .............................................................................................................................. 5
Third row ................................................................................................................................. 7
3. Pasting plain (clean) text into a Text box ................................................................................... 8
4. Pasting from Microsoft Word or OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer ................................................ 9
5. Formatting text using styles and colours in a Text box ............................................................ 11
Add a Heading ........................................................................................................................ 11
Change the Colour of the heading ............................................................................................. 12
Change the Font of the heading ................................................................................................ 13
Change the Font family of the paragraph text ............................................................................ 14
Making certain words stand out ................................................................................................ 15
6. Insert an image into a Text box .............................................................................................. 17
Setting up ............................................................................................................................. 17
Get the link for your image ...................................................................................................... 19
Insert your image into a text block ........................................................................................... 20
7. Image layout in a Text box .................................................................................................... 27
Wrapping images with text: aligned left or right ....................................................................... 27
Fine tuning images ................................................................................................................. 29
8. Inserting tables into a Text box .............................................................................................. 35
Inserting a table ..................................................................................................................... 35
Insert/Edit Table dialogue window sections explained .............................................................. 37
9. Editing table cells in a table within a Text box ......................................................................... 45
10. Background colour in a Text box ......................................................................................... 49
11. Superscript and subscript text in a Text box ........................................................................ 56
Subscript ............................................................................................................................... 56
Superscript ............................................................................................................................ 59
12. How to create a Drop Cap in a Text box ................................................................................. 62
13. How to create APA references in a Text box (hanging indents) ................................................ 65
Add your references ................................................................................................................ 65
Format your references ........................................................................................................... 66
Experimenting with the indent .................................................................................................. 69