How to edit a page

# Edit an Existing Page
- Type the topic you are interested in in the search box in the left panel of the page.
- Clicking Search searches for the keyword that you entered anywhere (not just in the title) on any page.
- Clicking Go searches for pages whose exact title matches what you just typed in
- Once you have found the topic or page you were looking for, click on the title of the topic (i.e page) you would like to edit
- Next, click on the edit button at the top of the page. Also, clicking the edit button in the upper right corner of each section enables an edit page for that particular section.

# Basic wiki language

## Examples

# When do I need to redirect a page?
Sometimes a topic will have multiple names or abbreviations, and you will want to direct them all to one page.
For example take the page ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.  The names STEMI, MI, Acute MI, Myocardial Infarction, AMI all are redirected to the page ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.

## How do I make a redirect (redirect command)?
To redirect a page A to a different page B (also called target page), enter the following redirecting command at the top of redirecting page.
For example, to redirect the MI page ( redirecting page ) to the ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction page (target page),  edit the MI page and enter:

## How do I make a redirect to a section in a page?
To redirect a page A to a section C(target section) in page B, enter the following redirecting command at the top of redirecting page.
For example, to redirect the Holosystolic Murmur page (redirecting page) to the Holosystolic (Pansystolic) Murmurs section (target section) in page Heart murmur, edit the Holosystolic Murmur page and enter:

## What if I misspell the name of a page that I create?
If a spelling mistake occurs in a title such as STElevation Myocardial Infarction, it is not possible for a regular user to move the page with all its history. It is however possible to create a redirect. A new page ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction must be created first, and the contents from the old page must be copied manually. Then the old page STElevation Myocardial Infarction must be edited and its source code replaced by:

## What are undesirable redirects?
Don't make (a redirect that points to another redirect); they don't work, they create slow, unpleasant experiences for the reader, and they make the navigational structure of the site confusing.
To learn more about redirects click here.

# How do I change the color of a font?
Typing this:
Yields this red text:
your text
Are there other colors? You can create text in any hexadecimal color.
Typing this:
Creates your text with hexadecimal color #1f4099:
your text

# How do I display the computer code so that I can teach people the underlying commands?
Type   before the content and type  after the content 

# How do I change the size of a font?
The fonts come in sizes from 1 to 7. The standard size is 3, unless otherwise specified in the  or other tags.
Typing this:
Creates a bigger font size of size 4:
your text
Typing this:
Creates text with size 1 bigger than the standard:
your text
Typing this:
Creates text with size 1 smaller than the standard:
your text

# How do I change the typeface of a font?
Typing this:
Makes text with Courier font:
your text

# How do I insert an image?
For instructions on how to insert an image, Click here

# How do I insert a reference?
To learn how to insert references 

# How do I add a page to a category?
At some point it becomes useful to classify the information according to categories. An example of a category in use is this Help page (see link at the very bottom). To create a category, simply add (for each category) a line as follows:
Typing this:
Adds the page to the Category of Cardiology chapters.
It is convention to insert these lines near the bottom of the wiki page. Once your edit is saved, the category will exist and add the page to it.
Please use one of the following approved categories to tag a page:

# How do I insert and remove a table of contents?
You add the text
somewhere within the page (it can be added to the bottom of the page) in order to remove the table of contents.
Typing
will put a table of contents in the location of the text.

# How do I create a 'Return to top' link?
For a long page with multiple sections, sometimes you might want your reader to be able to return to the top of the page without having to scroll all the way up.  To do this, you can make a 'Return to top' link.  
You need to know the name of your page (Pagename) and to select a section (TopSection) from the top of the page (click here to learn how to create sections.)
In general,
creates the 'Return to top' link.
For example, on this page:
creates: Return to top

# How do I upload a file to the site so it can be downloaded by others?
First, click on upload file on the toolbox menu to upload the file from your computer to WikiDoc.

## How do I create a link to the file I just uploaded?
Put two square brackets on either side of the file's name to create a link to it so that it can be downloaded like this:
Example: You have uploaded a file named DSMB charter.doc
To create the link, you simply type:

# How do I edit the left sidebar?
In the search box type:
mediawiki:sidebar
This editing function may be restricted to administrators of WikiDoc.

# How do I create a link straight to a picture?
Use the following syntax:

# How do I put those big quotes around a section of a guidelines statement for instance?
You use the cquote temple and type this:
And it looks like this:

# How do I upload a slide or a slideset for downloading?
1. First upload your slides to the server by clicking on the button on the left toolbar that says "Upload file" or by clicking here
2. Follow the instructions on that page.
3. There will be a box that says "Destination filename"
4. Copy the name of the file from this box
5. Insert the following code  media:your filename goes here

# How to Add a Twitter Feed

# What About More Sophisticated Tools for Editing?
To access a more sophisticated tools set for editing, create a page called User:USERNAME/monobook.js.  If your username was Johndoe the name of the page would be User:Johndoe/monobook.js
On this page type or paste the following text (it's a template and activates an editing compute program):  
If you are logged in, you can also access it here :   Special:Mypage/monobook.js