Dealing with the crappy admin interface when editing page content. Tips? Tricks? in SharePoint Server Design and Customization    |   |  Help   Search For:     In:   Office   SharePoint Portal Server     SharePoint Server General Q&A and Discussions     SharePoint Server Design and Customization     SharePoint Server Setup and Administration     SharePoint Server Development and Programming              darrel 12/20/2007 12:15 PM PST   Question   We finally have a working page layout template set up for our intranet site. The main pages are 3 columns of rich text/html web parts. The problem is when you go to edit one of these web parts, you end up with the really wide text editing box. This then pushed the entire screen wide, including the APPLY buttons. So, if one needs to edit the lext in the lower right, for instance, the process is: Click EDIT PAGE go to web part EDIT SHARED WEB PART wait for reload, and then scroll all the way down. Edit content Scroll all the way to the right. Scroll all the way to the top Click on OK. Click on PUBLISH. This is just goofy, to say the least. I can't think of a fix, nor do I really expect there to be one. But thought I'd toss this out in here to see if maybe someone miraculously found a way around this. -Darrel     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Jan Tielens (MVP)  12/20/2007 11:30 PM PST   Answer   Out of the box this is not possible but you can "hack" your way to it. :-) Be aware that I've never tried it myself, but you can read following articles to get a floating tool pane: http://www.thesug.org/blogs/kyles/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=89c8858b%2D90d2%2D4750%2Da11a%2De599248e6c69&ID=6 http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2007/05/01/problems-with-the-floating-toolpane-in-sharepoint.aspx -- Greetz Jan ______________________ Read my weblog: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan "darrel" wrote: > We finally have a working page layout template set up for our intranet site. > > The main pages are 3 columns of rich text/html web parts. > > The problem is when you go to edit one of these web parts, you end up with > the really wide text editing box. This then pushed the entire screen wide, > including the APPLY buttons. > > So, if one needs to edit the lext in the lower right, for instance, the > process is: > > Click EDIT PAGE > > go to web part EDIT SHARED WEB PART > > wait for reload, and then scroll all the way down. > > Edit content > > Scroll all the way to the right. > > Scroll all the way to the top > > Click on OK. > > Click on PUBLISH. > > This is just goofy, to say the least. > > I can't think of a fix, nor do I really expect there to be one. But thought > I'd toss this out in here to see if maybe someone miraculously found a way > around this. > > -Darrel > > >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           darrel 12/21/2007 7:22 AM PST   > Out of the box this is not possible but you can "hack" your way to it. :-) > Be > aware that I've never tried it myself, but you can read following articles > to > get a floating tool pane: > > http://www.thesug.org/blogs/kyles/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=89c8858b%2D90d2%2D4750%2Da11a%2De599248e6c69&ID=6 > > http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2007/05/01/problems-with-the-floating-toolpane-in-sharepoint.aspx Nice links! I'll dig into those! -Darrel     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top         Return to Microsoft Communities   Notify me of replies