If you send out mail often from PowerBase, you might have noticed that the editor has changed recently.
The editor PowerBase uses is called CKeditor. It has some new buttons and a slightly different look. This tip focuses on the button called Styles.
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Styles are special, saved formatting that can help you save time and keep your newsletters consistent. Rather than changing size, font face, and color, we suggest you use a style when possible. Here’s a look at some of the available styles. To the left, you’ll see text formatted with each of these styles:
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Italic title can be used to quickly bold, enlarge, and italicize text. Particularly helpful for emails is the style called Special Container. This puts a gray box around text to make it stand out from the text around it. You might want to use this for a quote or a key point.
To use Styles, highlight the text you want to apply a style to. Select the style from the dropdown menu, and it will automatically get the formatting you’ve chosen.
In the image below, we’ve adapted an article from commondreams.org as if we were sending out an email blast. We’ve used styles to format different parts of the text. You can see that we’ve used Italic Title, Subtitle, Special Container, Marker: Yellow, and Cited Work. You can also highlight a block of text and click “Inline Quotation” to automatically enclose it in quotation marks.
The sample below is perhaps a bit busy for an email, but at least gives a sense of how you might highlight or draw attention to different pieces of your message using styles.
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An important note is that you can, and should, also use styles in your word processing software (Open Office or Word, for example). Learn more about that here on our Word tutorial recording.
