User:SuperGenealogist/Sandbox 2

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[[Image:Edit-copy green.svg.png|thumb]]Practice Training for "Splitting an Article"
(Unless otherwise indicated, all edits were made using the Wikitext Editor.)

Helpful Wiki Pages:

 * 1) How to Split Articles
 * 2) Name a new article
 * 3) Help:Renaming a page
 * 4) Create a page linked from an existing page
 * 5) Help:Adding Links
 * 6) Help:Namespaces

Helpful Wiki Pages:

 * 1) FamilySearch Wiki: Manual of Style
 * 2) Help:How to create an article
 * 3) How to author an article in the Wiki
 * 4) Wiki Demo - Create a New Page
 * 5) Help:Redirects
 * 6) Help:How to Create an Un-Portal Page
 * 7) Memories of the Past

Creating a table using the FCK Editor Insert/Edit Table icon [[Image:FCKtable.png]].

 * 1) After signing in to the Wiki, located the section where I wished to add a table, and clicked the Edit section icon.
 * 2) On the FCK/Rich Text Editor toolbar, clicked the Insert/Edit Table icon [[Image:FCKtable.png]].
 * 3) This is what came up: [[Image:Table properties.jpg|left|326x168px]]

4. The default text in some of these boxes were changed as follows: Rows: 4; Columns: 3; Headers:     First Row. (This setting makes the headings bold.) The rest of the pre-filled boxes were left     alone. These were added to blank fields: Caption: Example Table; Summary: Create table for demo    purposes. 5. This is what it looks like:

To create the table and move it to this Wiki page:
Example Table
 * 1) Opened OpenOffice Writer (on my flash drive) and created a simple table.
 * 2) Followed the directions found at wiki.familysearch.org/en/User:SuperGenealogist/Sandbox#From_OpenOffice_version_2.4.1: to transfer the table.
 * 3) This is what it looks like:

To put borders around the table:
Example Table
 * 1) Repeated the steps above.
 * 2) Saved the page.
 * 3) In the FCK Editor, right-clicked the table, and then selected Table Properties.
 * 4) In the box labeled Borders, typed a "1."
 * 5) This is what it looks like:

(Note: OpenOffice.org Calc, which is similar to Microsoft Office Excel, does not offer an option to convert to MediaWiki.txt. It does, however, offer options to convert to PDF or XHTML.)

Helpful Wiki Pages:


 * 1) https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Help:Adding_basic_tables_to_an_article
 * 2) https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Help:Tables
 * 3) https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Copy_Spreadsheets_into_the_Wiki
 * 4) http://excel2wiki.net/
 * 5) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Sorting (advanced)
 * 6) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Collapsing (advanced)

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