The Font chooser in the text editor is un-necessary and should never be used.

Your web site uses a graphical template that was professionally designed.  The font was chosen by the designer to provide a clean professional look. The font is set in a global style sheet.  When you choose the font yourself using the Font chooser as shown above, you are over-riding the font chosen by the designer.  Now you will have one page with one font and another page with another font and the site starts to look patched together and sloppy.

If you want the font changed on your site, please ask me.  As your service facilitator, I have full access to edit the global style that gives your site it's look. 

To style your text use the Format Chooser.

HTML has a great feature for simple formatting called Heading Tags.  If you want a large bold font, choose Heading 1 or 2.  If you want to put a caption under a photo, perhaps Heading 5 or 6 would look nice.  If you want Bold, Italc, or Underline, use the buttons on the toolbar.    These buttons work great.  If you want to change the way Heading 1 or any element looks, that can be done globally and I am happy to make the change for you.

Block elements vs Inline elements

All headings are block elements.  This means you must use them on a block of text, text that stands alone such as a paragraph heading or full paragraph.  Bold, Italic, Underline are all Inline elements.  You can can select any word or sentence on a page and apply the Bold Italic or Underline and only the selected words are affected. But if I select some words inside a paragraph and apply a

Heading element,

a new paragraph is created.

If you want some words in a paragraph to be larger, feel free to use the Size Chooser, but I recommend against it from a design perspective. 

If you want some text to be a different colour, there is a Colour Chooser but again, use this sparingly.

Pasting from Word.

Word is a great tool for writing for paper, but it does not play well with online editors.  If you copy your text from a Word document and paste it into the online editor, all of Word's formatting will follow.  While this sounds like a good idea, it really is a bad one.  Your page will contain code that is not compatible with your site's style.  You must strip Word's formatting when pasting.  Your online editor has some tools to make this easy and I strongly recommend that you use them. 

Paste From Word and Paste Plain Text   are your best friends when pasting from Word or from other web pages or PDF files.  These buttons make it easy to maintain a consistent look on your site.  I always use Paste Plain Text and then I do all my formatting in the online editor using Heading elements and Bold or Italic and Bulleted or numbered lists.

When you paste a table from Word as plain text, you will loose your tables.  I always use the table button   from the Online editor and make my own HTML table and then rebuild the table one cell at a time.  Obviously this is not practical for a large table so if you have a large table, you might consider using a module designed for displaying large tables.  Call me for help in that case.

More on this later.  It is an important topic.