Formatting text

You can format the text of your article, review, web page or photo description by using the Rich Text editor. Formatting options include:

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Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough

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Color

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Alignment and Indenting

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Horizontal Rules

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Font Face, Size, and Block

Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough

The buttons
The first few buttons on the top of the Rich Text Editor are:

Bold

Changes text formatting to bold.

Italics

Changes text formatting to italics.

Underline

Changes text formatting to underlined.

Strikethrough

Changes text formatting to strikethrough.

To format text using the Rich Text Editor menu bar:

1.	Navigate to the page where you plan to format text for an article, review, web page or photo description:

2.	Select the text to which you want to add formatting, for example the word "bold" in the graphic below:

3.	Click the appropriate button on the menu bar. For example, if you want the word to be bolded, click :

4.	Apply italic, underline and strikethrough formating as required to other text. You can apply multiple text formatting to selected text - for example, if you select the text you want to format, and click and , the text is both bolded and italicized, as shown in the example below:

5.	To format text as you type, click the button on the Rich Text Editor menu for the formatting you want, and continue typing. The text you type will be formatted accordingly. Click the button again to stop formatting the text.

Color

The button

Text Color

Changes the color of the selected text.

This button is slightly different from the , , and buttons. If you click this button, a color palette appears:

To apply color to your text

Select the text for which you want to change the color, click the text color button and then click the color on the palette that you want to apply.

Alignment and Indenting

The buttons
These buttons control the positioning of text:

Align Left

Left-aligns the current paragraph.

Align Center

Center-aligns the current paragraph.

Align Right

Right-aligns the current paragraph.

Decrease Indent

Removes indents from the current paragraph.

Increase Indent

Indents the current paragraph.

To align text

Place your cursor on any line or paragraph you want to align and then click the alignment button of your choice.



Horizontal Rules

The button

Horizontal Rule

Inserts a horizontal rule at the cursor's current line.

To insert a horizontal rule in the body of your text

1.

Enter an entry as you normally would.

2.

Place your cursor at the point where you would like a horizontal rule, and click the button. The horizontal line is inserted at the cursor location:

3.

If you want to continue entering text after the horizontal rule you inserted, press ENTER on your keyboard to go to the next line. Continue typing your text. The body of your text will be similar to the example shown below:

Font Face, Size, and Block
The menus

Font Face

Changes the font typeface.

Font Size

Changes the size of the font.

Font Block

Changes the paragraph type.

To change the font face, size or block

1.

Select the text for which you want to change the font.

2.

Click the beside the Font Face, Font Size or Font Block menu and from the drop-down list, select an option. For example, you might select the Arial font for your text from the Font Face Menu , and then select x-small from the Font Size menu . The result will be similar to the example shown in the graphic below:

To change the paragraph style, select text and click beside the Font Block menu . If you select Headline 1, the result is similar to the example shown below: