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    I still can't figure out how to use the font colors and sizes. I would like to have the URL in my signature be another color, but don't know how to do it. Can someone please advise.

    Thanks.
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    While Danny and others can probably explain this better than I can, I'm pretty sure it's just like HTML tags. In these examples, I'm replacing the brackets with parens so you can see them. If I didn't do this, the parser would convert them to code.

    Once you enter some test, you highlight </span>it and click the "Font Size" drop-down arrow to select the desired size. Like I did with the word "highlight". Note that you have to enter the text first, highlight it, THEN change it\'s size.

    The code it generated looks like this:
    [font=Courier New:535bc458b3]Once you enter some test, you (size=16)highlight (/size)it and click the "Font Size" drop-down arrow to select the desired size. [/font:535bc458b3]

    Use the same principle for Font Color.

    Now, if you want to stack parameters, you simply build them from the inside out, just like HTML. So if I wanted my big word, "highlight" to be big and red, I simply highlight the word again **but not the tags around it** and change the font color.

    Now the code looks liks this:
    [font=Courier New:535bc458b3]I simply (size=16)(color=red)highlight (/color)(/size)the word again. . .[/font:535bc458b3]

    Hyperlinks will be fun.
    Build the hyperlink first (which you apperantly already know):
    (url=http://home.earthlink.net/~jkash1/)Mr. Kash\'s Prius Site(/url)

    Now just repeatedly highlight the text "Mr. Kash\'s Prius Site" and add whatever affects you want. I\'ve managed to make this:
    <span style=\'color:red\'>Mr. Kash\'s Prius Site

    And its code looks like this:
    [font=Courier New:535bc458b3](url=http://home.earthlink.net/~jkash1/)(size=16)(color=red)Mr. Kash's Prius Site(/color)(/size)(/url)[/font:535bc458b3]

    Just keep adding stuff like bold and italic the same way. Usually, what I do is set it up and then play with the tags by manually adjusting the color, or size, or whatever. And Preview. Previewing is free, you should do it often.

    I hope that helps a little.

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