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Question: What are all those toolbar icons?

Answer:

Step	Instructions	Example or Picture	Notes
1	As in a word processor there is a toolbar with many icons that control text styles and formats.		School Loop changes these icons, and their arrangement, from time to time. They mistakenly removed the Source icon in Summer 2015, but they plan to add it back.
2	Move the mouse to hover over an icon and a pop-up will tell you what the icon is. A pop-up box will tell you what the icon is for.
3	To use most of the tools you select some text and then click the icon to apply it to the selected text. A few tools insert text at the current position (where you last clicked or typed). A few apply to the paragraph that contains the current position.

Here is a list of the toolbar tools. The most commonly used tools have their names in bold.

Toolbar tool	Description	Select text first?
Style	Set the selected text to a predefined style.	Yes
Font	Set the font of the selected text.	Yes
Size	Set the size of selected text. Normal text is size 14, so it's best to stay near that size.	Yes
Bold	Make the selected text bold.	Yes
Italic	Make the selected text italic.	Yes
Underline	Underline the selected text. It's best to avoid this since people usually assume that underlined text indicates a clickable link.	Yes
Strikeout	Cross out the selected text.	Yes
Subscript	Lower and shrink the selected text.	Yes
Superscript	Raise and shrink the selected text.	Yes
Undo	Reverse the previous action or undo the latest change to the text.	No
Redo	Used after Undo to "undo the undo".	No
Remove Format	Undo formatting of the selected text. If text styling has gotten "messed up" you can select the text, remove the foramtting, and start over.	Yes
Find	Opens the Find and Replace box.	No
Replace	Opens the Find and Replace box.	No
Insert/Remove Numbered List	Change the selected lines to a list numbered 1, 2, 3. If it's already a numbered list, remove the numbers.	Yes
Insert/Remove Bulleted List	Change the selected lines to a list with bullets. If it's already a bulleted list, remove the bullets.	Yes
Decrease Indent	Shift the selected text left, if it's previously been shifted right.	Yes
Increase Indent	Shift the selected text right.	Yes
Block Quote	Supposed to shift the selected text right, but doesn't work due to a bug in School Loop.	Yes
Left Justify	Left-justify the current paragraph.	No
Center Justify	Center the current paragraph.	No
Right Justify	Right-justify the current paragraph.	No
Block Justify	Justify the current paragraph to both left and right margins.	No
Text Color	Set the color of the selected text.	Yes
Background Color	Set the background color of the selected text.	Yes
Insert Special Character	Open a window where you can pick special characters and symbols, such as a bullet, arrow, copyright symbol, or accented letter.	No
Insert Horizontal Line	Insert a wide line at the current position.	No
Link	Turn the selected text into a link to a web page, downloadable file, or email address.	Yes
Unlink	Remove the previously set link from the selected text.	Yes
Anchor	Insert a "named anchor" at the current position. This is an advanced web technique used to let links go to a particular place on a web page.	No
Image	Insert an image, selected from one of your albums, at the current position.	No
Table	Insert a table at the current position. You'll be asked for the number of rows and columns and other table settings, all of which you can change later. We recommend that you set Cell padding to 5.	No
Source	Show the raw web code, called HTML. This is for advanced users and lets you make changes to the content that you couldn't make using the toolbar tools.	No
Maximize	Change the text area to the full window, so you have more room to enter and edit text. Click the icon again to return to the normal editing window.	No

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