Camille Barichello
posted this on May 04, 2010 10:57 am
To make edits to your personal message text, sign in to your account.
Now you're on your editing page. Under Story, type your message in the text box. Your menu bar lets you format your text, and contains (left to right, top to bottom):
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Hides or displays the editor tool bar. | Click symbol. |
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Allows you to edit the html of your page text directly. | Click symbol, type into box that appears. To switch back to WYSIWYG editor, click symbol again. |
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Cuts text. | Highlight text, click symbol. |
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Copies text. | Highlight text, click symbol. |
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Pastes text. | Click where you would like the text to appear, then click symbol. |
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Pastes as plaintext. | Click where you would like the text to appear, then click symbol. Use this button if you would like to strip out formatting from your source material. |
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Pastes from Word. | Click where you would like the text to appear, then click symbol. Use this button if you are pasting from a Word document - it removes Word's formatting, which can cause pasted content to appear strangely on websites. |
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Undoes your last action. | Click symbol when you would like to undo the last thing you have done. |
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Redoes the last action you undid. | Click symbol when you have undone something and would like to reinstate it. |
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Removes formatting. | Highlight text, click symbol. Use this button to return a section to plain text. |
| Boldface text. | Highlight text, click symbol. To remove boldface: Highlight text, click symbol. | |
| Italicize text. | Highlight text, click symbol. To remove italics: Highlight text, click symbol. | |
| Underline text. | Highlight text, click symbol.To remove underline: Highlight text, click symbol. | |
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Adds a link (clickable text to go to another webpage). | Highlight text you would like to be clickable, click symbol, enter URL of target webpage. |
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Removes a link. | Highlight link text, click symbol. |
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Changes the font of your text. | Highlight text, click arrow, choose font. |
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Changes the size of your text. | Highlight text, click arrow, choose size. |
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Changes the color of your text. | Highlight text, click arrow, choose color. |
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Changes the background color of your text. | Highlight text, click arrow, choose color. |
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Left aligns copy. | Highlight text, click symbol. |
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Center aligns copy. | Highlight text, click symbol. |