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1. Page Table of Contents: When drafting a page and creating sections via header levels (header 1, header 2, header 3, etc), the wiki will automatically insert a page Table of Contents (ToC) at the top of the page in reflection of the headers you create. The ToC is composed of sectional hyperlinks and very useful for jumping to the various sections in a given page. It is also useful for glancing at your page structure to ensure sections are structured as you want them to be. You can hide or show a ToC. When you hide it, it simply collapses, but does not disappear altogether, which allows you to expand it again if you choose to. Also, the hide/show behavior is remembered from page to page, and even from wiki session to session.
2. Link Color Behavior: When adding a new internal wiki link, you'll notice the text for the link is red. This is useful, it lets you know that a page is waiting and ready but no content has yet been initially saved in the page. The first time anyone saves content in the page, even if the content is deleted entirely again thereafter, the link text will turn blue and remain that way. Hence, authors should not save content in a page until it's certain the content is to remain, or you will lose the helpful color of red that indicates a page is new.
3. Edit Previewing: When editing a page's content, you are given the ability to preview the changes before saving the changes. This can be very useful if you don't want to have to make many page saves and associated save comments. As would show up in the Recent changes page.
4. Text Formatting Buttons: When editing a page's content, and when in edit mode, you will see a series of buttons along the top left of the edit window. Use these buttons to speed up your editing activities. The first four buttons (from left to right) will likely be the most useful for you, and they respectfully control bold text, italic text, internal links, and external links. Most of the buttons, including the four just mentioned, work by highlighting the section of text you want to change and then clicking the appropriate button. You don't have to use the buttons to make the same edits, you can also type the syntax by hand, which is a much better way to remember the wiki syntax, which is itself not very hard.