How do I find my bold-italics-underline features
It’s a genuine question!! If I could answer it myself, I wouldn’t have spent AN HOUR trying to ask you!!
Maybe you could show us a screen-shot of what your screen looks like now. There might be a clue there that will lead to an answer. (Just edit your original question to add the extra detail.)
The fat A symbol, the slanted A symbol, and the underlined A symbol that were above where I write my text documents, suddenly disappeared (my computer is breaking down & this kind of thing happens) They used to be in a side-bar so I thought they’d be there again - but they are gone & I cannot find them, I cannot do a screen shot. Under what heading would such a feature be listed?
Go to View | Toolbars and make sure that Formatting is checked.
If that isn’t the problem, post a screenshot as ve3oat suggested.
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