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title: How Do I Use the Email Editor Toolbar?
description: Learn what each button in the Send Email message toolbar does, from fonts and colors to lists, links, and images.
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# How Do I Use the Email Editor Toolbar?
The toolbar above the Message box on the Send Email page lets you format your email with fonts, colors, lists, links, and images. Owners and Org Admins see it at Message Center \> Send Email.
**When would you use this?**
- Making a meeting notice stand out with a heading and bold date and time.
- Turning a list of pool rules into a bulleted or numbered list so members can scan it.
- Linking the words "board meeting agenda" to a web page instead of pasting a long address.
- Adding a logo or photo from your Document Center to a newsletter.
**Steps**
1. Click Message Center in the left nav, then click Send Email.
2. Click inside the Message box, then use the toolbar above it. On narrower windows the toolbar wraps onto a second row.
3. To format text, select the words in the Message box first, then click a button. Buttons with a small arrow open a list of choices. Pick the one you want.
4. To add a link, click Insert link. You can select the words you want to turn into a link first, but you do not have to. A box opens with a Text field and a URL field, and both are required. Enter the words readers will click in Text and the web address in URL, then confirm with the check mark. Click the X to close the box without adding a link.
5. To add an image, click Insert image. The Insert image window opens with your Document Center folders on the left and the files in the selected folder on the right. Click a folder, select an image, then click Insert. Click Cancel to close the window without adding anything.
**What each button does**
- **Font family** - the typeface. Choices are Default, Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, Times New Roman, Georgia, and Courier New.
- **Font size** - Default, Small, Normal, Medium, Large, Extra Large, or Huge.
- **Font color** - a grid of colors (Default, Black, Grey, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Teal, Blue, Indigo, Purple, Pink) plus a Custom color box.
- **Highlight** - the color behind the text (None, Yellow, Orange, Red, Pink, Purple, Blue, Teal, Green, Grey) plus a Custom color box.
- **Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough** - the usual text styles.
- **Paragraph** - the normal body text style.
- **Heading level** - Heading 1 through Heading 6, for section titles.
- **Text alignment** - Left, Center, Right, or Justify.
- **Bulleted list** and **Numbered list** - start a list.
- **Blockquote** - sets a passage apart as a quotation.
- **Horizontal rule** - a dividing line across the message.
- **Line break** - starts a new line without starting a new paragraph.
- **Insert link** and **Insert image** - described in the steps above.
- **Image text wrap** - choices No wrap, Wrap left, and Wrap right for how text flows around an image. The button is greyed out while the message is empty.
- **Select all** - selects everything in the Message box.
- **Clear formatting** - removes the formatting from the selected text.
- **Undo** and **Redo** - step backward or forward through your changes.
**Good to Know**
- Formatting you add is part of the email every recipient receives. Sending cannot be undone, so check the message before you click Send Email.
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