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By Default TinyMCE is configured in Joomla so that functions such as Font Size, Color, Style, etc are not enable and are controlled by the CSS code. For many this is a pain so I dug around and found a way to impchange the options avaliable to the user in TinyMCE Editor.

Options for the TinyMCE Mambot were found at
http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/TinyMCE:Index

Here is what I did to make it work in Joomla 1.0x

Open .../joomla/mambots/editors/tinymce.php
Look around lines 126 - 136 for the following code

$plugins[] = '';
$buttons2[] = '';
$buttons3[] = '';
$elements[] = '';

EDIT IT:

$plugins[] = '';
$buttons2[] = 'fontselect,fontsizeselect';
$buttons3[] = 'forecolor,backcolor';
$elements[] = '';

Save and close the file.

Here is for Joomla 1.5 as found by a fellow user.

open joomla/plugins/editors/tinymce.php

Find the following lines (on mine it was about 3/4 of the way through the file)

theme_advanced_buttons1_add : \"fontselect\",
theme_advanced_buttons2_add : \"$buttons2\",
theme_advanced_buttons3_add : \"$buttons3\",

Change them to the following (I also added background colour, but you might not, or you might want more).

theme_advanced_buttons1_add : \"fontselect,fontsizeselect\",
theme_advanced_buttons2_add : \"$buttons2\",
theme_advanced_buttons3_add : \"$buttons3,backcolor\",

You can add whatever parameters you like (using the examples page to find the variable name). Each one is separated by a comma, with \" at the start of the list and \", at the end. For example \"$buttons3,backcolor,fontsizeselect, forecolor\",