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How to format the text on your fundraising page

Camille Barichello
posted this on May 04, 2010 10:57 am

To make edits to your personal message text, sign in to your account.

  1. Click the name of your fundraising page.
  2. Click Edit Your Page.

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):

Symbol What it does How to use it  

rich text symbol

Hides or displays the editor tool bar. Click symbol.
sourcebutton.gif 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.
cutbutton.gif Cuts text. Highlight text, click symbol.
copybutton.gif Copies text. Highlight text, click symbol.
pastebutton.gif Pastes text. Click where you would like the text to appear, then click symbol.
pasteastextbutton.gif 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.
pastefromwordbutton.gif 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.
undobutton.gif Undoes your last action. Click symbol when you would like to undo the last thing you have done.
redobutton.gif Redoes the last action you undid. Click symbol when you have undone something and would like to reinstate it.
removeformattingbutton.gif Removes formatting. Highlight text, click symbol.  Use this button to return a section to plain text.
bold text symbol Boldface text. Highlight text, click symbol. To remove boldface: Highlight text, click symbol.
italic text symbol Italicize text. Highlight text, click symbol. To remove italics: Highlight text, click symbol.
undeline text symbol Underline text. Highlight text, click symbol.To remove underline: Highlight text, click symbol.
linkbutton.gif 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.
breaklinkbutton.gif Removes a link. Highlight link text, click symbol.
font.gif Changes the font of your text. Highlight text, click arrow, choose font.
size.gif Changes the size of your text. Highlight text, click arrow, choose size.
color symbol Changes the color of your text. Highlight text, click arrow, choose color.
bgcolorbutton.gif Changes the background color of your text. Highlight text, click arrow, choose color.
rightjustified.gif Left aligns copy. Highlight text, click symbol.
centerjustified.gif Center aligns copy. Highlight text, click symbol.
 
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