I invest in super fast desktops, but then hold onto to them for as long as seven years, which is an eternity in IT dog-years.

This one has an 1 gig SSD C: drive, which really helps speed up data processing, plus two external old-fashioned spinning drives (inside the chassis) for data storage.

Merij1 – please and thanks share your ability to edit your typeface on your posts – e.g.: bold, etc.

phl1rxd, it’s basic HTML formatting. Like this, except without the blank spaces:

italicize
boldface
underline

italicize + inset

Ha. That failed to show you how, and I posted from Chrome so I can’t edit it!

You bracket the words you want formatted with HTML formatting instructions. For example, the following letters. For the start, you use the “less than/greater than” keys as brackets around the letter, first pointing left, then right. After the formatting instruction, you do the same but add a right-sloping slash before the same letter, to tell it to stop.

Like this, except replace the words “example html code” with an i or a b and leave out the forward slash when you use it at the beginning.:

</example html code>

These letters work for basic stuff:

i = italics
b = boldface

I also use the word “blockquote” to inset someone’s words I’m quoting with italics. See example above.

Ha Merij1 – I understood the first response completely. I know enough code to get myself into trouble. Thanks again for the response and follow up. You rock!

Just FYI, in addition to the slightly more formal HTML style tags, I think wordpress recognizes simple in-text markup, so you can do italics with underscores: _ _ , or with asterisks: * *

So if you want to italicize something, set it off with underscores, or with asterisks

ETA: (I thought asterisks would render as bold–some systems work that way–but wordpress renders both as italics)

@trent * creates italics for me. I’ll try the underscore to see if creates bold

Ah I guess I do not get the formatting, darn.

@BE, you had it almost right. But to close it out, use a forward slash /, not a backward one \ like you tried at first:

So it’s

To be or not to be, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1.

This is a test

You are loved and cherished
Everything negative has a positive
You are a wonderful soul full of light


Love and peace to all who read this.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love…Stevie Wonder

Yeah!! BIG HUGS Merij1!!!!