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Here are few hints on using TWiki.
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  Tony's TWiki Hints. 
  1.  General Introduction.
   2. TWiki Documentation
   3. Tony's Hints 
  3.1.  Commenting.
   3.2.  Smilies.
   3.3.  Tables.
   3.4.  Generating a table of contents
   3.5.  Standard icons and images 
   3.6.  Tabbed browsing.
   3.7.  Numbered Headings
   3.8. Tree Browsing.
   3.9. Conversions from MS Word/Excel Documents.
   3.10.  Font colors etc.
   3.11.  Drawing Editor
 
   4. Other things.
   5. More examples.
 .  General Introduction.
 
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You can enter this tag on a page to generate a table of contents
%TOC%
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+.14.  Standard icons and images
 TWikiDocGraphics provides standard icons etc.
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+.16.  Tabbed browsing.
 See TabbedBrowsing for how to implement a form of tabbed browsing.  For example





<-- set 'tab_urls' = list of tab urls -->


<-- set 'tab_names' = list of tab names -->




  
    This page intro
Documents
These Hints
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 This page is using numbered headers.    A basic numbered header could be done by inserting the following into the header
%CALC{$SETM(nh,+1)$GET(nh).}%

Here - nh is a variable which is maintaining the number.  So a typical header might look like
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 To get other levels of headers, you have to combined multiple of these using different variable, for example
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 Here nh2 is the header for the second level.  In this example, you want a different variable for each lower level header, through there is probably a SET command you could use to avoid this.

The %CALC stuff here is from SpreadSheetPlugin.
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The TreeBrowserPlugin provides alternatives to representing bullet lists.  For example:
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The TreeBrowserPlugin provides alternatives to representing nested bullet lists.  For example:
 %TREEBROWSER{"file" title="Main Web Home" shared="left"}% 
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  Index
  Search
  this is a very very very long text
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+ Folder 
 Leaf1
  Subfolder 
 Leaf3
 
  Leaf2
  Webs 
 BusinessPractices
  Main
  TWiki
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+.24. Conversions from MS Word/Excel Documents.
 Some visual basic macros exists which help to convert from MS Word/Excel into TWiki text.  They are not perfect but may do the job you want.
 

 MS Word to TWiki
  MS Excel to TWiki
  Both MS Excel to/from TWiki
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+.25.  Font colors etc. 

You can  Change the color of  text using some standard names.  For example
%BLUE% this ends up blue %ENDCOLOR% 

See  TWikiPreferences#RenderingShortcuts for details.  You can also use techniques shown here to change other font characteristics - if you now your html.
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+.27.  Drawing Editor
 * DOES NOT YET WORK *

You you can just upload existing images, there is also a JAVA base Drawing tool - TWikiDrawPlugin.  Just drop
 This Page on the TWiki home site introduces a lot of examples.  Well worth a look.
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 -- TonyFarrell - 12 Jun 2007