It sounds like it is my problem, not yours.

Right above this screen I am typing my response on, I see a box to change fonts with a drop down menu

I can even do wingdings:  LIke these guys are.  OOPS, it looks like they don't work once I hit enter.  I hope there aren't andy spelling errors here, because I can't read it on my editing screen.

Next to that is a box for changing the font size.

Next to that is BOLD

Next to that is italic, then Underline, then  justify left, center and right.

After athat are four button that do bullet things.

Then a button for horizontal bar, then a funny one that says "Insert Web Link"  then the last button says "view HTML source"

That sounds different than the boxes that appear on "normal" people's screens, and I don't have a "url" button. 

When I go back to manually typing the old bbs codes, like [QUOTE] Does this work?[/QUOTE], well you see what happens.  I haven't tried bolding things or slanting things.  It looks like those work when I type the (b] and (i] codes manually (using brackets on both ends.)  I can quote people, but only by hitting the quote button next to their post (where it says "quote" and "reply" to this message, or something similar.)  I cannot quote outside sources and have them in  the brackets quote boxes.  I can bold them, or something similar like SHOCKING putting them in quote marks, but that is old school.

I cannot change font colors.

When I hit the "insert web link" button, I get a menu that has two boxes, one that says "type and defaults with "http," and a second box where you paste the code in.  When I do that, I get this:

http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Magazines/Ensign/1974.htm/ensign%20january%201974.htm/prepare%20ye%20.htm?fn=document-frameset.htm$f=templates$3.0

which seems to work, but I can't type any sort of shortened verbage.  Following Euphrasies instructions (and the instructions you get when you hit "Posting, how to" at the bottom of this page,) I get this:

Pink Floyd

Well, dang it, now it seems to work.  I must have had something typed wrong when I tried to do it in the other thread.  But you can see how that would happen, couldn't you?  Here is what I have typed using () at the first and the end instead of []:

(url=http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Magazines/Ensign/1974.htm/ensign%20january%201974.htm/prepare%20ye%20.htm?fn=document-frameset.htm$f=templates$3.0]Pink Floyd[/url)

So, there you go.

 And dang it, these work:

And this:\/ \/ \/  is just embarassing to see how many time I have edited. 
-- Edited by Pink Floyd at 20:25, 2006-08-30

-- Edited by Pink Floyd at 20:27, 2006-08-30

-- Edited by Pink Floyd at 20:31, 2006-08-30

-- Edited by Pink Floyd at 20:35, 2006-08-30

-- Edited by Pink Floyd at 20:36, 2006-08-30

-- Edited by Pink Floyd at 20:37, 2006-08-30

I have leaned how to delete all but the last one, however...