The visual editor can be turned on or off on your Users > Profile page.

If you do not see these, press Ctrl-F5 (Windows) or Apple+R (Mac) to force a page reload.

Top: Left to Right

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 and 11. Make links to other sites. See this link for details

12. Use this to insert, edit or link to an image somewhere on the internet. Includes options for description, alignment, dimensions, border, spacing and class.

13. If you want your readers to only see a few words - so you can split your posts and have them neat on the page - and then have to click a link to ‘read more……’ then use this icon where you want the link to be. If you want to customise the message, go and read this.

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

15. Full screen editor

16. Makes the bottom row appear.

Bottom row: Left to Right

1. Change the text format

2. Underline text

3. Justify text

4. Text colour

5. Paste text into the editor

6. Paste from Word

7. Remove all formatting

8. Insert Custom Characters

9. Indent Left

10. Indent right

11 and 12. Undo / Redo

13. Help