Formatting

There are two modes of editing: Visual and Text. Choose the mode by clicking on the appropriate tab. Visual mode gives you a WYSIWYG editor. The Text mode allows you to enter HTML along with your post text.

Our instructions below are based on using the “Visual” mode so make sure that tab is active before you move ahead.

In Edit Page or Post view, you have a formatting panel that you use to format your text.

When you highlight a selection of text, you can apply various formats or functions to that text using the tools in the formatting toolbar. Note! You must have the text highlighted for the formatting to apply to it (see sample below).

These are the available options, top left to bottom right:

Top row of tools:

•  – Bold
•  – Italic
•  – Strike through
•  – Bulleted list
•  – Numbered list
•  – Quote (creates a block of text that stands out – the look of this on your own website may look different as each website has its own custom fonts and layout:)

Quote Sample: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

•  – left, center and right justified.
•  – Link and unlink tool. More info here »
•  – Read more link and distraction free writing – not used much.
•  – Show/hide second row of formatting (click this if you don’t see the following tools)

Bottom row of tools:

•  – explained in detail below
•  – Underline
•  – Justify text (even right and left margin)
•  – Text color
•  – Paste as Plain text (T) or Paste from Word (W). Copy text from RTF or Word files and paste into these tools to keep formatting when inserted.
•  – Remove formatting. If you paste text directly from another webpage or Word it sometimes bring with unwanted formatting. Highlight the text and use this tool to remove all formatting.
•  – Inserts special characters into your text.
•  – Indent/outdent one step
•  – Undo, Redo and Help

Paragraph format samples – NOTE, each website has it’s own custom formatting set for these formats. But this gives you the idea even if your website’s fonts might be very different from what’s shown below:

Paragraph: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy.

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Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

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Heading 5

Heading 6