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How to format your text

Updated today

Make words stand out, add links, and change how a block looks, all without leaving your writing.

Format words and sentences

Select any text and a small toolbar appears above it. From left to right:

Bold, Italic, Underline, and Strikethrough
Link, to turn the text into a link
Text & highlight color, to color the text or its background

You can also use keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+B for bold, Ctrl+I for italic, and Ctrl+U for underline (Cmd instead of Ctrl on Mac).

Add a link

1.Select the text you want to link.
2.Click Link in the toolbar.
3.Paste the web address and click the check button to save.

To change or remove a link later, click it in your post and use the pencil to edit or the trash can to remove.

Add color

Select your text, click Text & highlight color, and pick one of 10 text colors or 10 background colors. To remove a color, choose Default text or Default background.

Use color sparingly. A little highlight draws the eye, but too much makes a post harder to read.

Change a block's style

To turn a paragraph into a heading, quote, list, or code block, click anywhere in it and open the Paragraph dropdown in the toolbar at the bottom of the editor. Pick the style you want. Choose Paragraph to switch it back to normal text.