Blogging an Easier Way - "Updated Editor" in Blogspot

I have long struggled with blogging in Blogspot, and one of my problems have been the silly little edit window. About this width but only 2" high (5cm) for those of you new to Blogspot. It made it near imposible to swap text, pictures etc.

But I belong to a wonderful group with a private Yahoo group and today the following useful information was posted by Tracey Pereira www.chubbymother.blogspot.com and I have her permission to share it here:

"You can get to Updated Editor in blogspot as follows:

Login to your blogger account

Go to CUSTOMISE (on top right)

Go to SETTINGS (on top left)

In settings .... page down to GLOBAL SETTINGS

Select post editor : Choices are Updated Editor / Old Editor and Hide Compose Mode

Select Updated Editor and SAVE"

I have been blogging in Old Editor and haven't been aware there was an Updated Editor!

More useful information:

"Now when you write a new post you will have a new edit panel

In Edit post ...you will have a new top formatting line for things like the fonts, text size, bold, italic, colours etc.. Upload IMAGES is on this line.

Click the image box to add an image. You can upload as many photos - jpegs, pngs, tiffs as you want BUT the difference is they are only uploaded as thumbnails - ie they are NOT actually uploaded to your blog posting until you click on the photo and say OK. I have uploaded as many as a dozen images in this way - 8 per page so I had 2 pages in my case and was able to go from page 1 to 2 or vice-versa to select the images I wanted.

A pale yellow box shows around the image when you select. Now click OK and the image will post to you blog entry. Now add text ... (if you want).

To add the next image to your posting go to the format line at the top of the blog post and click the image box again. You will be taken back to the image uploader page with ALL the photos/images thumbnails you previously uploaded. Now highligh the image you want and click OK again. This second image will now post to the blog entry at the position your cursor was at before you clicked the upload image box.

Continue in this way going between blog posting and image uploader to select the images you want in the order you want them. Remember to press OK or your images will not go to the post entry."

My muse is back and blogging has been made easier, what more could I want! Perhaps that it isn't a problem when I change the text size.........!!

This is what happend when I changed to a bigger size text!

Ups, it did something funny, I took a screen picture - can you see the text in the middle, after the word "group" (in blue):





I still struggle: This text size is much smaller or bigger than I normally use, but if I change it everything goes funny - see picture at the bottom. I'm also confused by the spacing..... Update - now I have gone back to Old Editor - to make the post like I want it....... and in OE I've now got the text size I meant to have....

So starting in Updated Editor and then when I make changes and it plays up - go back to Old Editor and sort things out.............. hmmm I might have to change the headline!