Formatting Text

You can easily change the appearance of the message to make it more attractive.

You can use the text formatting toolbar buttons to to change the appearance of the selected text. For example, select the title of your newsletter, and click the “Bold” button to make it stand out.

Alternatively, you can set the style of text you are about to write. With no text selected, move your text-editing caret to the place you want to type, and use any of the text formatting buttons. For example, to change the color of the text you are going to type to blue, click the button, and select the color by clicking it in the “Color” window.

Choosing Font

To change the current font, use the drop-down list. Click the down-arrow button, scroll to the font you want to use and click it.

I suggest to only use standard fonts in your messages. If you use fonts that are unlikely to be installed on your recipients’ machines, it may result in your message looking different for you and your subscribers. Pretty safe choices are “Arial”, “Arial Black”, “Arial Narrow”, “Comic Sans MS”, “Courier”, “Courier New”, “Garamond”, “Microsoft Sans Serif”, “Symbol”, “System”, “Tahoma”, “Times New Roman” and “Verdana”. You may restrict your choice of fonts to “Arial”, “Courier New”, “Tahoma”, “Times New Roman” and “Verdana” to make sure nearly 100% of your recipients see your message as you intend them to.

Changing Text Size

Next to the “Fonts” drop-down list, there is another one. It lets you change the size of the text. Simply select the text you want to format, and select the size from the list.

Changing Text Color

You can change the color of the text using the “Font Color” button . Clicking the buttons brings up the “Colors” window.

Select any of the basic colors or create a custom color using the color palette on the right side of the window.

Changing Text Style

To change the text style to bold, italic or underline (or a combination of these styles) use the “Bold” , “Italic” and “Underline” button.

Changing Text Alignment

You can change the horizontal alignment of the selected text using these three buttons: . You can align text to the left margin, center it, or align it to the right margin (see below).