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You can easily apply HTML formatting codes to any HTML document with asWe. Just open or create a document and select a chunk of text. You'll see something that looks like this:

Note that several of the buttons in the second row of the toolbar illuminate as you make the selection. Pressing one of these buttons will apply the appropriate HTML codes for the desired to the selection.

Formatting text

Buttons used to format text
Button	Tag	Function
	<H1></H1>	The headline tags format their contents to stand out by making space around them and putting them in boldface. The number in the tag designates how big the text will be. (1 is biggest, 6 is smallest) Text between <H3> tags looks like this.
	<em></em>	The emphasis tag makes text look italicized. Text between <em> tags looks like this.
	<STRONG></STRONG>	The strong tag makes text look boldfaced. Text between <STRONG> tags looks like this.

Spacing text

You will often want to spread out your pages. These tags (and buttons in aswe) help you space out your pages.

Buttons used to space out your texts
Button	Tag	Function
	<P></P>	The paragraph tag adds a line break and a space between lines of text. This text is separated from the other text in this box by a paragraph tag.
	<BR>	The line break tag acts just like a carraige return on a typewriter (it moves down one line and back to the beginning of the line). The break tag, in other words, starts a new line but doesn't put any space between the two lines. This text is separated from the text above by a <BR> tag.
	<hr>	The horizontal rule tag makes a line across the page. This text is separated from the text above by a <HR> tag.

Lists

Lists are a handy way to present information. They spread out text and make significant points that might be lost in other ways of presentation.

Buttons used to make lists
Button	Tag	Function
	<OL></OL>	This tag allows you to make an ordered list. For each part you want in the list, you should follow these steps (which are presented in an ordered list). Select the text you want to be a list item. (Make sure it's between the <OL> tags) Click the 'List Item' button.
	<UL></UL>	This tag allows you to make an unordered list. For each part you want in the list, you should follow these steps (which are presented in an ordered list). Select the text you want to be a list item. (Make sure it's between the <OL> tags) Click the 'List Item' button.
	<LI></LI>	This button will not light up until you select text between <OL> or <UL> tags. The List Item tag will allow you to make one entry in a list (as seen in the lists above).

Indenting Text

     Two other common ways to format text are to indent it. One way to indent text is to put "non-breaking spaces" at the beginning of a paragraph. Normally html browsers ignore blank space--tags are needed to format text. In order to force the browser to include spaces, you have to use a special character called a "non-breaking space." To put one in your html document using asWe, type "Shift + Space" or click on the Markup menu, choose the Entities menu, choose the Standard menu, and choose the "non breaking space" option. This paragraph has five non-breaking spaces (which look like this  ) at its beginning, giving it the indented look.

Another way is to make an entire section or paragraph indented, as one would do with a block quote in a paper. The tag for this sort of indenting is <BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> The text in this paragraph is between blockquote tags. Notice the way it is indented on the left margin and is spaced above and below from the paragraphs around it.

The toolbar buttons have the most commonly used formatting styles and elements. But there are a lot more in the menus and in the HTML guides we have online. See the other tutorials and experiment to see what asWe can do.