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Thanks so much for your response. I reread that post (which is what I based my code on) and I do realize I made some changes. For example removing:

// deactivation of the visual tab, so user can't play with template styles
add_filter ( 'user_can_richedit' , create_function ( '$a' , 'return false;' ) , 50 );

and using:

'tinymce'=> array(
                 'toolbar1'=> 'bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,forecolor',
                 'toolbar2' => 'bullist,numlist,link,unlink,undo,redo'
                       )

instead of

'quicktags' => array(
		'buttons' => 'strong,em,link,block,del,ins,img,ul,ol,li,code,close')

Without those changes I can’t get the rich text editor that I require. Did you mean by “It’s explained here” that making the visual editor work in this context is not possible?