Additional Information

View Modes

At the bottom of the page you will see these buttons: 
 

  • Normal and Preview actually function the same way.  When you are in preview mode, you can click on  and see the page as if it is on the Internet.  You can click on links and see if they work properly.  Here is what the page looks like in normal or preview mode.
  • Show All Tags shows you the tags associated with your HTML.  In all cases, when a graphic is added, you need to describe the image for benefit of blind and visually impaired, because their browsers will read the information to them. Here is the same page above with tags revealed.

 

Tables

Tables are very useful for many purposes, such as organizing text and placing elements in a prescribed space. To generate a table, click on the table icon  and you will get the following default window:
 
The table defaults to 2 x 2.  You can change the columns and rows by inserting the numbers you want.  Then click OK and the table will appear.

If you want to change the size of a table, you can change the width by selecting % or Pixels and changing the values.

Fonts

You can change font size but it may not be what you are used to.  Select Format and Font and get the following options:
As you can see, the choices are the most popular on the Internet-Helvetical, Arial, Times, and Courier. Any san serif font is excellent.

Text Size
 

Selection of Size give you choices of Smaller, Larger, x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, and xx-large.  You can obtain the same functions by using the these icon buttons 
 

Test Style

You can find the familiar Bold, Italic, and Underline under Text Style  listed, as well as other choices, such as Superscript and Subscript, which may be used with footnotes and mathematical formulas.


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