I’ve used both and can’t really tell a difference. Am I missing something obvious?
The difference occurs when you use one of the little WYSIWYG buttons on top of the “write message” box to format your text with vB code (as in adding boldface, italics, links, etc.).
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In “Guided Mode,” clicking the buttons will trigger a little popup window that lets you input the text you want formatted rather than having to see the vBcode.
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In “Enhanced Mode,” clicking the buttons sticks the vB codes directly into the message, where you can then enter the text as you wish. Clicking once creates the opening vb tag (e.g. “") clicking again will add the closing tag (e.g. "”). In some cases it can give you a little more flexibility, if you wanna get fancy with vB codes.
Hope that makes sense!
Thank you! You explained it very well.
I notice that it will also surround highlighted text with both tags appropriately.
And in either mode, you can select text and click the button to the open & close tags on each side of the selected text.
I don’t think I’ve ever used those buttons. Many vBulletin versions ago, I created QuicKeys macros for all the vB formatting functions I use more than 1-2x per year, and assigned them keystrokes.
(Later on, vB started intrinsically supporting very similar keystrokes, except that it inputs at the bottom of the message-input area, and my macros input whereve the flashing input cursor happens to be, so I still like mine better).
The buttons weren’t originally present, I don’t remember when they were added.
How do you switch from one mode to the other? I just looked around the control panel and didn’t find anything.
On the reply page, directly above the grey box where you type in your reply, there are two radio buttons: Guided Mode, says the first, and (you guessed it!) Enhanced Mode, says the second.
(Now you’re gonna tell me that not everyone’s reply box is grey??)
D’oh!
Thanks.
I was wondering this as well. I’m in enhanced mode now, but since I always type tags and smilies by hand I never understood the difference before.
(I’m one of those freaks who finds mice something of a distraction 90% of the time. My mind is keyboard-centric and has been for decades now.)