Help:VisualEditor/User guide

 If you would like to try VisualEditor without editing an article, [ here is a page] where you can freely test it. You don't need an account to use VisualEditor on that page.

== Opening VisualEditor ==

== Getting started: the VisualEditor toolbar ==

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== Saving changes ==

== Editing links ==

== Editing references ==

== Editing images and other media files ==

=== Editing images ===

=== Editing media galleries ===

== Editing templates ==

Editing lists
== Editing tables ==

== Editing categories ==

== Editing page settings ==

== Editing mathematical formulae ==

== Editing poems and other special items ==

Some items, such as poems and musical scores, are not yet fully supported by VisualEditor. Existing poems and musical scores can be edited, but new ones cannot be inserted in VisualEditor. Until they are fully supported, you can copy an existing one from another page, or edit the source wikitext directly.

You can not add an automatic signature or datestamp to a page in VisualEditor.

== Keyboard shortcuts ==

Many editors are used to entering wikitext directly, especially bold, italics and wikilinks. Keyboard>mw:VisualEditor/Portal/Keyboard shortcuts|Keyboard shortcuts allow to quickly insert similar formatting without having to use toolbar items. Here are the common general shortcuts in VisualEditor: