If you would like to add a degree of formating to your page, then take a look at the instructions below.

Any page is displayed in the View mode after it has been selected via the menu.

In order to see a few examples of Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) programming code necessary for formatting, you need to view the page in the Edit mode by clicking the Edit tab at the top of the page.

Click the Input format link immediately below this Body block and then click More information about formatting options for HTML of the limited amount of formatting available at the HTML level. Note: the author learned HTML a few years ago and I still use what I learned then. For instance the 'bold' formatting is using a different tag that the 'strong' tab shown in the 'Input format' link, but they both work equally well. It's just a case of what school you took you training at. By looking at this page in the editor you can see that the 'bold formatting is accomplished by surrounding the text you want bolded with the 'bold HTML tags. Example: < is the opening tag and > is the closing tag. Between these two characters is format character(s) that do the formatting, which is 'b' for bold. The complete bold format tag for bolding the word Hello is: <b>Hello</b>

Straight text does not use any HTML programming, and for the most part it is What You See Is What You Get, but it also has very limited amount of formatting. For instance if you try to use spaces to format your text, the editor will automatically remove all consecutive spaces greater than one space. The same is true of a line feed (Enter key); the Editor removes all but one consecutive line feed. But the Editor does not do the removing until you Save the page. Your original text is not edited, i.e. if you wanted to center a word by putting consecutive spaces in front of the word, the text would look centered in the body display, but not in the page once the page is saved. Sorry folks, that is just the way it works!

HINT: Until you get use to the idiosyncrasies of the Editor, you would be well advised to Save your page often.