| Tips on Posting in Message Boards Unless making a quick reply, writeoff-line; it offers an excellent backup should your posting fail. Do not use a word-processing document, as miscellaneous codes appear when you post the message. Use "Notepad" to create your message offline. - Go to List of Message Boards, or go to the Navigation Bar (left-hand side of Website) and select a Message Board.
- If post is a new subject -- then click on ‘New Discussion’ - top of main board.
- If your post is a reply -- go directly to the post that you want to answer and top left of it, click-on ‘Reply’
- When ‘Edit’ screen is fully loaded -- notice all the different Icon tools you have in which to prepare your text. If you do not see all these icons, uncheck the little box titled "use plain text editor. (Note, the editor is not available if you are using Mozilla Firefox as your web browser.)
- Just move your mouse pointer over the icons, and you should be able to read what each one does. Left to right; a pair of scissors; is for ‘Cut’ text or Delete.
Next, you will see icons for ‘Copy’ then ‘Paste’. Then ‘Font Style’ and ‘Font Size’ and ‘Text Colour’ and ‘Background Colour’. Look at all the icons to get an idea of what is available. If you make an error at anytime, you can ‘Cancel’ your post The difference between a posting using ‘Reply’ and a posting that is a ‘New Discussion’, is that when you create a new discussion you must fill in a ‘Subject ’ line. Also, please try to choose the most appropriate message board for your New Discussion. Message boards can be identified in the left navigation bar as those in all UPPERCASE letters. Finally.., When done, click SEND at the bottom and wait for it to go through. Note 1 -- You must be signed in before you can post. Note 2 -- You can delete any post you have made; look to the top right of post click on ‘Delete’. You can only delete what you have posted. If you have further questions regarding posting, please send an email to the manager for help rpenton@nf.sympatico.ca | 
