I'm curious: Is there a method you use for choosing regular font, italics, bold, bold italics, colors. Its seems like it would take forever to do all that unless you have the codes committed to memory
It's pretty easy, thanks to buttons that
The Chief has installed above the window you use for posting.
First: Highlight the text you want to change (by holding the left click down on the mouse
while running it over the text you want to change.)
Then: Have fun using combinations of the stuff above the window:
The
B on the first row on the far left will change the highlighted text to
bold, creating a [ b ] at the beginning and a [ / ] at the end without the spaces in the bracket (on the message before you Post or Preview it.) If then click on the
I button next to the
B, it puts the same text into
italics (with an [ i ] and [ /i ] without the spacing in your text.) You can make the type size
larger with the
A button on the top right (you have to change the font size number to make it
bigger or
smaller. As long as you don't type another word or character, all of the highlights remain. You can keep adding MORE effects, like
Change Color or
Change Color by adding
Bold.
It's easier to focus on the message or get a joke better with
highlighting. You can make it
LOOK the way you would
say it to their face, by using these
tools. If you hold the mouse over each effect above the window where you type, a brief description of what each effect does will show up. Almost nobody uses the
cross out effect. I didn't realize we had it until someone else made a joke about their own
misstatement that way.
Just try one effect, see how easy it is to do, and you may get hooked. Most people are in too much of a hurry to post their thoughts and curses in the
Game Threads to use these effects. You can use
Preview to see how it looks before clicking Post, or just
Post and then Modify to fix the things you
mess up.
While there are many
smileys provided, you can click on the first button in the 2nd row (which looks like a painting), and insert photos and smileys from other sites. I had never done that until I saw others do it in this Forum for laughs. The number of creative smileys available has EXPLODED in the last year. I use what someone else created for that purpose...
CopyingBy the way, if you see a word
underlined in
light red, it's actually a
spell checker, telling you that your word is
missppelledd. The light red line only goes away if it is corrected. If a [ or ] shows up on your posting, without the correct format you chose, sometimes the highlighting gets messed up. If you Modify and manually delete or type what normally appears in the brackets, it will show up correctly.
You can add a small
photo or
Smiley in your member
Profile so that it will show up under your user name, as your
avatar.
The
Chief and
Kenz aFan have helped people with their avatars.
