Frequently Asked Questions


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What do all the icons mean?

1. Makes text bold

2. Makes text italic

3. Puts a line through your words

  • 4. Makes a bullet point list
  • like this
  • and this
  • Click it again to stop the bullets

5. Makes a numbered list

  1. Which might
  2. be useful
  3. Click it again to stop it

6. Blockquotes your text. You can click it then write, or highlight your text and then click it. When you use it, the one next to it becomes usable to un-blockquote your text.

7. Left side text

8. Center text

9. Right side text

10. Make links to other sites. See this link for details
11. Break a link to another site.

12. Creates a More tag to split your post. This way you can highlight an excerpt and hide part of a long post. A “read more……” link appears, and allows users to read the full post. Please see a detailed FAQ article on using this tag – Splitting Posts with the More Tag

13. Spellchecker (sorry … only English at this time)

14. Full screen editor

15. Show/hide the second row of icons

16. Add and manage photos

17. Add and manage video (requires a Space Upgrade)

18. Add and manage audio (requires a Space Upgrade)

19. Add and manage other media

20. Change the text format

21. Underline text

22. Justify text

23. Text color

24. Paste text into the editor

25. Paste from Word

26. Remove all formatting

27. Insert custom characters

28. Indent left

29. Indent right

30. Undo

31. Redo

32. Help

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