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 here.

== Opening VisualEditor ==

== Getting started: the VisualEditor toolbar ==

center|800px| The VisualEditor toolbar

== Saving changes ==

== Editing links ==

== Editing images and other media files ==

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Editing and inserting galleries ===

== Editing references ==

== Editing templates ==

== Editing categories ==

== Editing page settings ==

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Editing mathematical formulae ==

The formula editor is still under development, so on some wikis you may need to opt-in to the formula editor to use it. To do this, click on "" in your personal tools in the top right of any wiki page, check the box next to "", and press "" at the bottom of the page.

== Editing poems and other special items ==

Some items, such as poems and musical scores aren't yet supported by VisualEditor. Until they are, you will need to edit the source wikitext directly if you want to alter or add 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 click the toolbar buttons. Common general shortcuts, and ones used by other editors, function in VisualEditor: