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Screenshot of the VisualEditor toolbar

The VisualEditor toolbar appears at the top of the screen when you begin editing.

The Template:Menu icon buttons ⧼visualeditor-historybutton-undo-tooltip⧽ and ⧼visualeditor-historybutton-redo-tooltip⧽ the changes you have made.

The Template:Menu icon or Template:Menu icon drop-down menu allows you to use standard text formats, for example to create headings and subheadings. Normal text format is called "⧼visualeditor-formatdropdown-format-paragraph⧽"; the main page sections are called "⧼visualeditor-formatdropdown-format-mw-heading2⧽", and subheadings are "⧼visualeditor-formatdropdown-format-heading2⧽", "⧼visualeditor-formatdropdown-format-heading3⧽", etc.

The Template:Menu icon drop down menu contains additional formatting options including bold (B), italic (I), underline (U), superscript (x2), and subscript (x2).This formatting is applied to any text that you've selected. For example, an article's subject should be written in bold the first time it is mentioned.

The Template:Menu icon allows bulleted and numbered lists, and the Template:Menu icon menu contains special characters.





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