Configuring Advanced Editing Options

Movable Type offers you several other enhanced editing options, including where the button bar is placed within the editing environment. This seemingly simple step actually can help you be more effective and fast when authoring entries as you won't have to scroll constantly to get to the buttons most critical to adding your entry. There's also a power-editing mode for power users, which allows you to modify multiple posts at once.

Button Bar

The Preview and Save button bar can be located in two places—at the top of the page above the editing fields (see Figure 4.5), or at the bottom of the page, below the fields (see Figure 4.6).

Figure 4.5. Here, the Preview and Save button bar is located above the editing ...

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