Most people would enter standard text in here but if you want to format the text, e.g. make a word bold etc, you will need to use some simple HTML tags that are used to code your web pages. Some of these are outlined below:

To make a word or phrase italic, key in <i>word</i> This will produce word

To underline a word or phrase, key in <u>word</u> This will produce word

To centre a word or phrase, key in <center>word</center> - note the US spelling of centre.

You can also change the font face, size and colour:

The standard font faces are Arial and Times New Roman

All fonts have a default size setting but if you want the text to look bigger or smaller, you can use + or - from 1 to 6

There are various colours that you can use. The values are usually the colour names e.g. white, black, blue, red, green, yellow but hex numbers can be used if you are looking for a particular shade of a colour.

Font specifications are keyed in as (e.g.):

<font face="arial" size="+1" color="red">word</font>

- note the US spelling of the word colour. This example would produce word

You don't have to use all the font options e.g. <font color="blue">word</font> produces word

You can combine any of these HTML tags too e.g. <b><i>word</i></b> will produce word
- Note the order of the tags used here. It doesn't matter which tag you start with but that must be the last tag you close, second tag you use should be the second to last tag you close etc etc.

Any of the HTML tags explained above can be put around single words, groups of words or paragraphs.

It is very important that you close any of these tags, e.g. </b> , because otherwise everything that you enter after the opening tag, e.g. <b> , will be covered by the instruction from that tag.