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You could add a little "snipet" of HTML code to the bottom of questions that you answer at AnswerPool, which would become your signature. Save the file, and then copy/paste the code into the bottom of your answers to become your "signature". If you have an image on the Internet, with permission you can add that to your signture, also. See an example of what I often use for a "signature" at AnswerPool by clicking here.

You can copy/paste this entire page into a "Notepad" file for your future use. Then, you can copy/paste the code into the Answer Point "Answer" text box and make any changes necessary. When you close the "Notepad" file, just click "No" if a dialog box asks if you want to save changes and your "cheat sheet" file won't be changed.

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This page has information about using the "copy/paste" function.

This is a great place to practice this: http://www.gettingstarted.net/

Click the "Practice" link.

<A HREF="http://www.gettingstarted.net/"target="_new" >Click the "Practice" link.</a>

To link sites:

Your website address should be pasted in between the "quote" marks.

<a href="http://yoursite.com"> link words </a>

To post pictures from a website:

<IMG SRC="Type or paste in the URL of the picture you wish to post"> </a>

The following are some codes you can use to "spice-up" standard text:

<BR> creates line break     When you wish to start a new line.

This is a Start tag: <B>

This is a Stop tag: </B>

<B> starts Bold

</B> Stops Bold    Type in the <B> in front of the word(s) you wish to Bold.   Then the </B> where you wish the Bold to stop.

Use the same method with Start and Stop tags with the rest of the codes.

<U> Starts Underline

</U> Stops Underline

<I> Starts Italic

</I> Stops Italic

<SUB> Starts _subscript

</SUB> Stops subscript

<SUP> Starts ^superscript

</SUP> Stops superscript
< blockquote >

starts Indent

</blockquote > stops Indent
< font size=4> starts font size
</font> stops font size
< font color=red > starts font color
</font> stops font color

(basic colors blue, green, etc.)
<FONT SIZE=2 COLOR="FF0030">

Click Here to see a color table

< marquee> starts marquee This "moving text" is a marquee.
</marquee> stops marquee

What I have done to simplify this is to put most of these codes in a notepad file. When I need a link to a site (to help answer a question), I just paste the URL into the link between the " " symbols. I keep alot of URLs (for my site) saved so I just need to paste them into any answer. Then to make the notepad file easily available, I assigned it it a keyboard shortcut. I named my file "links.txt" so I used the Ctrl + Alt + L for the keyboard shortcut. To do this, save your file to the C:\ drive. Then put a shortcut either on the Desktop or Start Menu. Right click on the Shortcut/select "Properties", then in the "Keyboard shortcut window", press the keys you want to use.

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This page lists a series of "How To..." articles written in an attempt to help those new to Windows based computers.

<A HREF="http://www.dwightblackburn.com/links.htm"target="_new" >Click here: <BR>This page lists a series of "How To..." articles written in an attempt to help those new to Windows based computers.</a>

Note: you use this code to show HTML code within HTML enabled pages:

&lt will display the Less Than symbol <

&gt will display the Greater Than symbol >

An easy way to make this change is to paste a line (or lines) of code into a word processor program like MS Word and then highlight it. Click the Edit menu, Find/Replace tool. Set the Find to:

<

and the replace to:

&lt

Then click the Replace All and all < symbols will be replaced with &lt. Do the same with the > symbol, replacing it with: &gt

Then copy/paste the code into the Answer Point text box. It will display the code correctly.

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Dwight Blackburn

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August 03,  2003