Hi again Linda,
I will be glad to send you very detailed, step-by-step instructions on certain functions, however, I will not have a suitable block of time until a bit later on this evening. What I plan on doing is sending you these by PM (personal message) in your MY MESSAGES button included in the tool bar near the top of any forum screen. A number will show there indicating how many PMs you have waiting for you.
I know this is disconcerting for you.... aak! Hang in there, I hope you get goin' as soon as possible.
In the meantime, keep playing around with it. Utilize the principle that wherever you place your cursor, if you then click on a certain smiley, where your cursor was... that is where the smiley will appear.
To actually SEE the smiley, click PREVIEW, and your the way your actual post will look like will display on top of your post draft. You can keep going back and forth correcting, changing, adding and checking in the PREVIEW before actually posting by clicking POST.
For bold, italicize and underline and color... type some text in your post, then highlight with your cursor what you want emphasized, then click whichever emphasis you want.... or two of them or three of them, doing so right in a row after each other so you don't have to keep re-highlighting each time.
More later on some of the other functions, but the principle is about the same, except there's a little twist for changing font size.
Sorry, have to hop for now...
More later Linda!
Janice