Thank you MN Techs - bulk bold/italics are great!

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I did check first to see whether anyone else had posted about this or not but it seems not, so -

THank you so much for allowing the bulk bolding and bulk italicising of words with just the use of the */^ at either end of the section, not around every word. It is FANTASTIC not to have to do every word, so much easier!

Now can you do it for the 'striking out' as well please?

But still, thanks for the others, that's brilliant.

Yay for this, I didn't know.

there was a thread the other day about it (sorry still a novelty factor)

I agree we need the strike out as well

Oh it must have been elsewhere than Site Stuff then cos I did look, honest!

Great though, innit!

oooh how exciting

Durr, I did a for sale thread yesterday and highlighted every word!

Will know next time!!

OH WOW that's really exciting actually

just trying this out to see if it works

I did notice a thread with a whole sentence in bold yesterday as was very impressed. I could never manage that without forgetting one of the *

That's what put me onto it, MmeL - one poster, who I know uses * as I would use around phrases, had an entire sentence in bold for no apparent reason. So I tried it out and lo!It worked like a charm!*

Sorry, still playing with it

Except it went a bit wrong there because I wasn't paying attention to where my *s were - whoops!

And I have just noticed that € works now too.

So I don't have funny ?300 instead of € signs.

Well done, Tech.

Where is the euro sign, MmeL? or is it on special keyboards (cos I don't have it)

It is above the E (I have to do Alt Gr to get it on my keyboard, but it is a German one)

testing testing one two three

My laptop keyboard doesn't even have an Alt Gr key - although I just tried the RH Alt key instead of the LH one, and discovered I can get é without using the Ctrl key as well now! No euro facility on this keyboard, never mind. I haven't got a backslash either.

Try that with the no. 4 [[]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_United_Kingdom.svg look here]

oops

€
Ooh! It worked! Thanks MmeL!!

The bold thing is causing a few problems on the education threads though, where people are trying to talk about A* grades!

How do you do it then?

ooh, very clever Tech, not even any complicated sequences to remember.

You deserve a shiny gold 'I did very well' sticker.

oh no, don't say that, RustyBear - we don't want MN to take it away again!

I suppose it is too complex to have the settings so that it works on spaces that are between words but not on spaces that precede words - it's an all or none scenario.

how does it work?