Help:Tutorial 4

1. Welcome 2. Editing 3. Formatting 4. Lists 5. Links 6. Discussion 7. Projects 8. Where next? It's often useful to indent your text, or make lists.

How do I indent text?

 * To indent text, you start the line with one or more colons 

:: This will be indented further, ::: The more colons, the larger the indent.

This will give you:


 * This will be indented,
 * This will be indented further,
 * The more colons, the larger the indent.

How do I make bulleted lists?
Bullets are made in a very similar way. But this time they use asterisks (*). The more asterisks you use, the bigger the indent.

* This gives a bullet, * If you go onto the next line, the bulleted list continues, ** Just as with colons, the more asterisks, the bigger the indent.

This will give you:


 * This gives a bullet
 * If you go onto the next line, the bulleted list continues.
 * Just as with colons, the more asterisks, the bigger the indent.

How do I make numbered lists?
Numbers use the number sign or hash symbol (#). If you use more than one hash, you can make sub-lists.


 * 1) Numbers work in the same way,
 * 2) Go onto the next line to carry on the list,
 * 3) Two or more number signs will give you sub-items,
 * 4) You can carry on with the sub numbers...
 * 5) Or go back to the original list.

This will give you:


 * 1) Numbers work in the same way
 * 2) Go onto the next line to carry on the list
 * 3) Two or more number signs will give you sub-items
 * 4) You can cary on with the sub numbers...
 * 5) Or go back to the original list.

Try formatting now:
To learn how to make links go to page 5 of this tutorial Next: More on links &gt;&gt;
 * 1) Click edit above
 * 2) Try to add some indented, bulletted or numbered text
 * 3) Type "test edit" in the summary box
 * 4) Click Show preview to check what you have written
 * 5) Click Save page to save your writing