Note  1:  EPOZ does not work with some older web browsers. If this seems to be happening to you, please read the information contained in  Problems with EPOZ 

What the icons do

  Toggle bold on selected text.

 Toggle italics on selected text.

  Toggle underline on selected text.

   Toggle strike through on selected text

  Toggle subscript on selected text. [ 5₂]

 Toggle superscript on selected text  [ 5² ]

  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.

  Turns selected text into a link. (Further information below)

  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

More about inserting links with the   icon

1. Type the name of the webpage you want to insert a link to and then select that piece of text

eg Harry's Place

2. Click on    and when the Hyperlink box appears enter the url in the space provided:

3. Click ok and your selected text will become an active link. 

Creating Headings

To create a heading:

1.  type it out
2.  select it
3.  access the drop down menu in the little box above the left hand end of the row of EPOZ icons:

Headings give your text structure and make it more visually appealing. Epoz provides an easy way 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. All the headings on this document are "Heading 1" headings.

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.