# How DO you

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/96840>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 4, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/96840 "2001-12-04T15:27:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![cleops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@cleops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleops)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/96840/1 "2001-12-04T15:27:34Z")

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italicize or make bold a word in a post? If I hit Ctrl-I ro -B, I flip to some pop-up or other. What is the secret?  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/96840/2 "2001-12-04T15:31:12Z")

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At the bottom of this thread there are the forum rules, on the last line there is a link to the [vbcodes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=bbcode) which are used to format text.

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**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/96840/3 "2001-12-04T15:33:41Z")

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[**i]_Around words to make them italicised_[**/i]

[**b]Around words to make them bold[**/b]

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**Author:** ![cleops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@cleops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleops)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/96840/4 "2001-12-04T19:53:17Z")

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_Thanks_, dopers, for taking the time to **help** me out!

Hey, it worked!!!

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**Author:** ![Leap\_the\_net\_will\_appear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Leap\_the\_net\_will\_appear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leap_the_net_will_appear)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/96840/5 "2001-12-04T20:01:00Z")

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There’s more codes, for [sub]subscript[/sub] and [sup]superscript[/sup]. Click on Reply w/ Quote to see how someone codes something you want to try.