Help:VisualEditor/User guide

 If you would like to try VisualEditor without editing an article, [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?veaction=edit 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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Screenshot of the VisualEditor toolbar ]]

== Saving changes ==

== Editing links ==

== Editing references ==

== Editing images and other media files ==

=== Editing images ===

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Editing media galleries ===

== Editing templates ==

== Editing tables ==

== Editing categories ==

== Editing page settings ==

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Editing mathematical formulae ==

== Editing poems and other special items ==

Some items, such as poems and musical scores, are not yet supported by VisualEditor. Until they are, you will need to edit the source wikitext directly if you want to add these or change these.

== 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: