You may have noticed in the images in these help pages an editor being used to edit the text. This editor is Epoz:

How to activate it

Epoz is not activated by default.  To activate it you have to choose Epoz as your content editor in your preferences:

Please note it will only work with the web browsers mentioned above.

What the buttons do

	Toggle bold on selected text.
	Toggle italics on selected text.
	Toggle underline on selected text.
	Toggle strikethrough on selected text.
	Toggle subscript on selected text.
	Toggle superscript on selected text.
	Removes formatting from the selected text—but only if you've added the formatting in the current editing session.
	Changes colour of the selected text.
	Changes the background colour of the current paragraph, list or heading. If you are not using paragraphs, lists or headings, the background colour of the whole item being edited will change.
	Makes the text left aligned.
	Centres the text.
	Makes the text right aligned.
	Makes paragraph part of a numbered list.
	Makes paragraph part of a list with points.
	Unindent paragraph.
	Indent paragraph.
	Adds a hyperlink to selected text.
	Adds an anchor to selected text.
	Inserts an image by URL.
	Inserts a horizontal rule.
	Inserts a table.
	Opens the toolbox to insert images and links using point and click—this is very useful indeed! To insert a link, select some text, open the toolbox, locate the correct item to link to, and click on insert link. To insert an image, simply open the toolbox, locate the image, and click on insert image.
	Undo.
	Redo.

Creating headings

Headings give your text structure and make it more visually appealing. Epoz provides an easy option to create nice looking headings. Position your cursor somwhere in the line of text you want to turn into a heading, and choose your heading style from the drop down list immediately above the row of buttons.  Your headings will then pick up the standard heading style of the website, which keeps formatting throughout the website clean and consistent. For instance the heading immediately above, Creating Headings, is a Heading 1 style.

Strategies for using Epoz effectively

• Copy and paste externally formatted text into Epoz with caution: if you copy and paste text from a word processor or web page, it is very likely to retain much of the formatting, which may well make it look out of place on this website. To work around this problem, first copy and paste the text into a text editor. Examples of common text editors  are notepad on Windows and gEdit on GNU/Linux.  This will strip the formatting from the text automatically. Then copy and paste this text into Epoz.
• Use paragraphs: content on this site looks better when it is in what is known as a paragraph—the lines have a subtle gap between them, and the paragraph itself has a gap between itself and the next one. These make the text easier to read. Links within paragraphs are also displayed with underlines instead of merely with a different colour.  To activate a paragraph, simply position your cursor in the appropriate location in the text and choose Paragraph from the drop down list immediately above the buttons.
• Pasting at the start of a line: if this fails, try moving the cursor one character to the right.

Advanced use

You can view and edit the raw HTML by clicking on the small box at the lower left corner of the Epoz editing box. Click it again to go back to the visual layout. This is handy when you want fix a mistake Epoz may have made, or you want more control over the HTML produced.