New Bloggers Guide
We are just going over the basics, so we will only describe the buttons on the two-tool-bar configuration — if you see four tool-bars, click the Show/Hide Kitchen Sink button to get rid of the middle two. In fact, the very important tools in the bottom row are described in detail on another page: Creating and Editing Posts — Tips and Techniques.
Each of these buttons influences the text directly. Some of these have more obvious functions than others, and can be applied to the text by either selecting/de-selecting them before/after the words or phrases that you want affected, or by highlighting (simply, holding the left mouse button down and dragging it over the text — you’ll know it’s working when the colors of the text and background invert) the relevant text, and then clicking the desired button.
Let’s talk about what each of these buttons does:
Functions followed by ** are explained further in another tutorial.
Bolds the text
Italicizes the text
Strikes out selected text
Creates a bulleted, or a numbered, list
Highlighted, block-quote.
Aligns your text to be flush left, centered, or flush right in the box
Inserts a link in the post, or undoes a created link
Inserts a “More…” tag which affects the display of the post **
Activates the spell-checker. Clicking on the arrow will present a drop down box that enables you to switch the language the spellcheck recognizes
Clicking this button allows you to expand the text editing box to fill the entire screen, like a Word document. You can switch back to standard by clicking this button again
Clicking this button reveals the Kitchen Sink**
Inserts the suit symbol that is clicked on **
Presents a dialog allowing a bridge auction to be entered (two types of auction diagrams) **
Presents a dialog allowing a bridge hands to entered (six types of diagrams) **
Presents a dialog allowing a BBO bridge movie to be inserted **
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