<p>Bold? Highlight the text, then hit Ctrl b - it is easy! Ctrl i will itallicize the highlighted text.</p>
<p>Easy.</p>
<p>: eek: :eek:</p>
<p>: rolleyes: :rolleyes:</p>
<p> you are most welcome</p>
<p>And you can get italics by putting i instead of b, and underline by putting u instead of b,</p>
<p>***and you can do all 3 *** </p>
<p>You can also hit control (the button on your computer that says Ctrl) and the letter at the same time and it will automatically do the brackets and letters for you and put the little flashy thing (note technical term) in between the brackets where you need to type.</p>
<p>I am so inspired I may try to text my hs nieces in the am;)</p>
<p>Wonder what they will think:rolleyes:</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
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<p>OMG I really don’t know how you got so smart. I think you must have smarter kids. Or at least more patient ones;)</p>
<p>Swimcatsmom and bunsenburner–
You seem to be teaching the AP level code class. Will there be an exam at the end of this thread?? Also, inquiring minds want to know… do all the different smiley faces on this thread have “Angel” as their middle name? ;)</p>
<p>Actually I discovered the ctrl b thing accidentally one day when i was trying to type a capital b and hit ctrl instead of shift.</p>
<p>I think this would be better than the SAT exams. In which case, I would not be able to go to college:) I do think me stringing the words together is something my kids would never let me live down if they found out.</p>
<p>jym, no, I do not teach AP code, but I once stayed at a Holiday Inn Express :D</p>
<p>^^^ I know I am supposed to remember what the Holiday Inn express joke is in reference to, but I forget :o</p>
<p>and mimk6, after I stopped kicking myself for making the instructions for you too lengthy and complex (causing you to miss the part about leaving the spacing between the words) I must confess I did chuckle for a brief moment…or 2…or 3. If the money is right I won’t track your kids down of facebook and rat you out.</p>
<p>And swimcatsmom – your secret is safe with me… and all reading this thread :)</p>
<p>jym, scroll down to “Marketing” 
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<p>[Holiday</a> Inn Express - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_Inn_Express]Holiday”>Holiday Inn Express - Wikipedia)</p>
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<p>so, to do a quote in a box, is there a shortcut with the control key like there is for italics and underlining and bolding?</p>
<p>^^^ ahh, thanks for the reminder, BB. Totally forgot that series of ads. I obviously spend too much time on the computer and too little time watching mindless TV and commercials. I will have to work on that.</p>
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<p>Well, I did get this joke:D: and I liked it 
but I don’t get most of them :o because I’m not as sharp as the rest of you :p</p>
<p>Sometimes days later I get them :eek:</p>
<p>I think I deserve an A for the effort :)</p>
<p>Jym, I’m sure we can work something out. This is the second truly “blonde” moment I’ve had this week. The other one came when I was driving my kid to school on Tuesday morning and suddenly there was a loud ringing sound in the car – like an old-fashioned phone. I guess we were both still half asleep. I said, “It’s not my phone ring” and he said, “And not mine, as it’s always on vibrate.” And I actually turned to him and said, “Do you think it’s the car?” And, even better, he started looking around on his side of the car. At which point, he finally realized that somehow his ring tone on his cell had accidentally been switched on and he didn’t know what it sounded like. But there we were wondering, if after eight years, the car suddenly had developed a ring tone.</p>
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I have never been able to find one.
You would think there would be though
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<p>I don’t get the Angel joke :(</p>
<p>Swimcatsmom-
Octomom gave all her 8 babies the middle name of “angel”. Since we were so painfully off topic, I thought I’d try to bring it back around ;)</p>
<p>And your car story-- too funny mimk6. Brings new meaning to the term “auto ring tone” (meaning the one that automatically comes installed on the phone… so as not to leave anyone in the dark). Once my older s did something to younger s’s phone and then couldnt undo it. For several weeks his ringtone was chickens clucking!!! It was sooo funny!</p>
<p>^^all the octuplet babies have “angel” as their middle name. At least I hope that is what the joke meant :D:</p>
<p>mimk6: I liked your story. My new car has all kind of unusual lights & symbols and if it started ringing, it would be no surprise to me I can only hope no one decides to give me GPS :rolleyes: which seems to be under discussion. Last night my H was very excited to tell me he had learned they now “talk” I’m guessing he would be amazed at these smilies! If I hadn’t disabled the texting on his brand new cell phone – I would try them out!</p>
<p>oops! sorry to explain your joke! AT least I was right!</p>
<p>No prob alh-- yes you were right! At least maybe my joke was clearer than my instructions on quoting. </p>
<p>I have a relatively new Blackberry and it has lots of features I have no idea how to use. Well, someone emailed me a confirmation of a meeting from his calendar. About 10 minutes before we were supposed to meet (and I was driving in the car) the phone starts to emit this LOUD gong sound several times!! Apparently his calendar program has auditory reminders of appts and makes a gong ringing sound!! LOL!! Is this unique to his program or is this how all appointment programs on one’s computer or PDA work?</p>
<p>A blackberry???</p>