Blogs at Penn State Community

The following is a chart of the available WYSWYG formatting tools. To access these tools, log in to http://blogs.psu.edu, enter your blog and click the Write Entry tab.

Note: If you do not see a Write Entry tab, click the white location tab (the "Blog Dashboard" tab) in the upper left and select the name of your blog.

Tool or Setting	Icon	Description
Descrease Font Size Increase Font Size		Click Decrease Text Size to make text smaller. Click Increase Text Size to make text larger.
Bold Italics Underline Strikethrough		Use the font formatting tools to add bold, italic, underline or strikethrough formatting respectively to selected text
Link		The Link tool allows you to create hyperlinks within your document. Highlight text which will become a link, click the Link tool, then enter the URL in the pop-up window.
Email Link		Use this tool to create links to e-mail addresses. Highlight text which will become a link, click the Email Link tool, then enter the e-mail address in the pop-up window.
Begin Blockquote End Blockquote		Use Begin Blockquote to indent a paragraph Use the End Blockquote to remove an indent.
Bulletd List		Click the Bulleted List option to create a bulleted list. Click the button again to stop the list. Click Tab to indent a list item in one level Click Shift-Tab outdent a list item
Numbered List		Click the Numbered List option to create a bulleted list. Click the button again to stop the list. Click Tab to indent a list item in one level Click Shift-Tab outdent a list item
Left Align Center Align Right Align		Use the Paragraph Alignment tools to select left aligned, center or right aligned text respectively
Insert Image		The Insert Image tool allows you to insert images into your document.
Insert File		The Insert File tool allows you to upload files (in, including audio and video files into your blog.
WYSIWYG Mode HTML Mode		To view the HTML code, click the <A> HTML mode button. To return to formatted text, click the blue underlined A WYSIWYG Mode button.