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Formatting begins with selecting a word, a sentence, a paragraph or the whole document. You can use your mouse, or keyboard to do this.

Selected text is highlighted with grey background.

Using your keyboard, you need to press the 'Shift' button (in Windows) and use the left or right arrow keys to move your selection range. Pressing 'Shift' and 'Ctrl' button will allow you to select word after word. Pressing 'Ctrl' key and the A key will select everything including pictures, videos and tables.

Using your mouse to select text is a simple point, click and drag operation, by which you can select letter by letter, word by word or line by line. To select a single word, you can double click on the word. To select a paragraph, you can triple click on any part of the paragraph. Try it out now with the text in this paragraph.

The  button or pressing 'Ctrl' and 'B' on your keyboard will make selected text bold. The  button or 'Ctrl' + 'I' will make it italic. Not shown as a button in the toolbar is 'Ctrl' + 'U' to add underline. The buttons will align your text to the left, center, right or justified. You can change text color with the  button, and also font family and font size  with respective drop boxes.

The 'Format' drop box allows you to designate selected text as normal paragraph, address, or heading 1 to 6. You can use headings to structure your content into sections. For example Heading 2 for section title, and Heading 3 for sub-section title.

Adding in the beginning of your wikipage will auto-create a clickable table of contents from these headings.

The button allows you to insert YouTube, Google and Current TV videos. You will need to insert the URL / website address of the video.

The  button allows you to insert images from Flickr and PhotoBucket. You will need the URL of the page containing the image. While inserting, you can set the height and width of the image to be displayed.

The  button will allow you to upload jpg or png pictures directly to the wikipage. There is a 5MB size limitation per picture. You can choose the display size of the picture. It can be either small, medium or large. Large is the same size as the original picture. All photos can be resized later.

The  button allows you to 'hyperlink' a selected word, sentence or image to a website. This will automatically take someone clicking on that word, sentence or image to the website.

The button enables easy linking to content within WiserEarth. Upon clicking, you can search, identify and press the button to insert a hyperlinked title of the content.

The  button will remove linked content or website from a word, sentence or image.

The anchor button , marks a section of a wikipage with a unique text ID. This can be used to link a word, sentence or image to that section of the page.

This phrase for example, is linked to #selecttext using the button, which will take you to section 1 of this page. The text id for that section is 'selecttext'. If you want to link from other pages to that section of this page, you need to link to 'http://url.of.this.page#selecttext'.

This feature is useful to navigate long documents such as the FAQs page.

The  button will add one or more indenting step to selected paragraph. The  button will cancel the indent one step at a time.

Combined with the button, it can be used to indicate quoted sentence or paragraph as shown in the example on the left.

As shown here, the button is used to create a list of items using bullets while the button is used to create a list using numbers.

The button is used to create a new table. You can specify among other things:

• number of columns and rows
• cell padding and cell spacing (in pixels)
• text alignment (left, center, right)
• table width and height (in pixels or % of wikipage's width/height)
• border (0 means no border, 1 means add border)
• border color (in the 'Advanced' tab)
• background color (in the 'Advanced' tab)

Column width and row height will automatically adjust to the content you put in the table. These buttons , adds or deletes rows and columns.

The button toggles table guidelines in editing mode. The button allows you to edit row properties such as alignment and height, while the button allows you edit cell properties.

Sometimes, all you want to do is to copy the content of a word document (.doc) you've created to a wikipage. This is easy to do but can result in a wikipage full of text attributes (type of fonts, size, style formatting, etc.) that has nothing to do with the content of the document.

To avoid this you can use the button, which will pop-up a window allowing you to paste the content of your word document there before inserting it to a wikipage. This ensures that the result is clean of messy attributes.