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Weblog: Editing the Text Formatting of Your Blog Posts
Note: This article is primarily posted for Weblog Writer.
After you've created a post, you can edit your post's text formatting at any time in the Post Composer. Use the Post Composer's rich text to make changes such as customizing text formatting, adjusting text alignment and spacing, adding bullets and numbering, and adding links.
Customizing your post's text formatting
You can customize your text's style, format, font color, and highlight color.
To format the text:
Go to Weblog.
Select the post that you want to edit, or create a new post.
Highlight the text that you want to format.
Customize your text using the formatting settings:
Click the Text Style drop-down to choose and apply a text style. Tip: You can also choose to update the current style to match the selected text, or reset the style to its default.
Click the Bold icon, Italic icon, or Underline icon to apply the style to the text.
Click the Text color icon to choose a color for the text.
Click the Highlight color icon to highlight the text with a color.
Inserting quotes or code snippets into your post
You can turn sections of your text into quotes or code snippets to make them stand out from the rest of your post. Quotes have a solid line to the left of the text, whereas code snippets are in a grey box.
To insert Quotes or Code Snippets:
Go to Weblog.
Select the post that you want to edit, or create a new post.
Highlight the text that you want to change into a quote or code snippet.
Click the Quote icon or the Code snippet icon to change the text.
Click Publish.
Adding numbered lists or bulleted lists to your post
You can turn sections of your text into numbered or bulleted lists. Numbered lists are a great way to add steps that your readers need to follow, whereas bulleted lists can be useful for lists of options or unordered items.
To add numbered or bulleted lists:
Go to Weblog.
Select the post that you want to edit, or create a new post.
Highlight the text that you want to change into a list.
Click the Numbered list icon or the Bulleted list icon to change the text.
Click Publish.
Adjusting text alignment, spacing, and indentation
You can customize the alignment of sections of your post's text, adjust the spacing between lines, and adjust the indentation of your text.
To adjust the alignment, spacing, and indentation:
Go to Weblog.
Select the post that you want to edit, or create a new post.
Highlight the block of text that you want to adjust.
Click the Alignment icon to select a left, center, right, or justified alignment from the drop-down menu.
Click the Line spacing icon to adjust the distance between lines of your text. You can select between 1 and 3 lines distance, or click Custom Spacing to create your own spacing.
Click the Increase Indent icon or Decrease Indent icon to adjust the indent of your text.
Click Publish.
Adding links to your post
You can create linked text in your post that readers can click to take them to other pages on your site or to external pages.
To add a link:
Go to Weblog.
Select the post that you want to edit, or create a new post.
Highlight the text that you want to add a link to.
Click the Link icon .
Add the URL that you want to link to.
(Optional) Select the Open link in a new tab checkbox in you want the link to open in a new tab.
(Optional) Select the checkboxes to add "nofollow" or "sponsored" link.
Click Save.
Click Publish.