This field contains all of the content that appears on the web page. In the back-end, the content appears in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) field. It has a toolbar that will be familiar to users with experience with word processors such MS Word.

Presto has a few choices for the 3rd party WYSIWYG editor that is used in the backend.  We refer to both ActivEdit and to soEditor here.  This is a screenshot of ActivEdit's WYSIWYG field input:

For a detailed description of each of the icons on the ActivEdit toolbar click on the  help icon.  soEditor provides help when you click on

As with any form field, you are able to cut and paste text into the Content field. When doing so, make sure that the content pasted is plain text. Any formatting must be done within the WYSIWYG field. Copying and pasting content from programs with formatting such as MS Word will appear to work correctly at first but it will eventually cause irregular and unstable formatting in the content. This is because when you copy text from a program such as MS Word, you are actually copying the text and a series of hidden formatting commands. When these hidden formatting commands make their way into an HTML environment they can cause formatting conflicts that are difficult to troubleshoot and time-intensive to fix.

If you have a document in MS Word that you would like to transfer into Presto, you will need to first copy the text into a plain text editor like Notepad. This will strip all of the hidden formatting commands. You can then copy and paste this text into the Content field. At this point you will need to redo the formatting within the Content field using the WYSIWYG controls.

(We hope to see a tool on the market that cleans up Word documents within the context of a WYSIWYG HTML editor, but haven't seen one yet).

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