Y&R Discussion Group -- Why can't I use italics, bold print or underscore anymore at MD?

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Topic: Why can't I use italics, bold print or underscore anymore at MD?

Topic Posted by: Jolypha
Date Posted: Tue Jan 10 23:06:17 2012
Additional Comments: I don't have anything showing up that gives me those options, yet many if not most in the book thread used them.

Thanks for any help.

Posted by: cordero68
Date posted: Thu Jan 12 20:23:28 2012
Message:
I post at public computers. Most have the option but some do not. It's not an issue with the site.

Posted by: Mitch
Date posted: Wed Jan 11 20:09:01 2012
Message:
The others are right. It's a browser problem. Possible solution: Use Internet Explorer for visiting MD and Firefox (or whatever your normal browser is) for other websites. It should work. I use more than one browser.

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I am afraid to switch because of the anti virus software they installed. They at the computer place told me not to switch. eom/Jo

Posted by: sam
Date posted: Wed Jan 11 19:26:30 2012
Message:
This board is not Firefox friendly. The only way I can change the font face, colour, size etc. is by using HTML.

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I'll probably just stick with Firefox and not mess it up by changing anything. eom/Joly

Posted by: UncleJJJ
Date posted: Wed Jan 11 14:01:42 2012
Message:

Do the options show up at the top of the dialogue box but are just low lighted so you can't use them?

If so you are in a source HTML format. Try clicking the <> at the far right of the low lighted tool bar and see if that lets you do fonts, bold, etc.

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Options do not show up at all. eom/Joly

Posted by: ingyandbert
Date posted: Wed Jan 11 8:51:58 2012
Message:

Try using the codes instead:

to turn on bold

to turn off bold

to turn on italics

to turn off italics

I'm not sure if it will work but it's all I've got.

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Thanks ingy. eom/Joly

Posted by: Bonk5
Date posted: Tue Jan 10 23:21:01 2012
Message:

Now I am on Internet Explorer and I can do bold, underline, slant fonts

I can change the color of my font.

I can add numbers
I can add pictures here
I can add color back ground.

But when I use the other servers I can not do any of this!

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Yep, same here. It also is probably why I can't use bold on other forums. eom/Joly

(Sam) It's not a server, it's a browser. Those of us who use Firefox as our browser don't have the little icons for bold, underline etc. I think if you use Explorer you'll see them.

Posted by: Bonk5
Date posted: Tue Jan 10 23:16:33 2012
Message:
I can only do that when I am using Internet Explorer. When I use, Flock, Firefox or Google Chrome, I can not change my font or color or go BOLD. Did you recently change your internet Server? Maybe that is why.

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Yep. I am on Firefox, not by choice. Computer kept getting hit by malware so the IT put me off IE and onto Firefox and were NOT friendly about it, to be honest. eom/Joly