Hello
This must be so incredibly easy that only I have problems, I see no guidance in the help page.
I am trying to get sections of headers followed by bullet points, then the same in the next section, as in https://highlandpeerpaddlergroup.groups.io/g/main.
I have actually done it, so it must be possible, but I do it by copying to Word then copying back. Word shows soft carriage returns between the lines, which I change to hard carriage returns before copying back.
If I try and do it direct in the editing box, the last item in the previous list picks up the formatting of the text I have selected, as does?all following text. I cannot apply bullet points to the selected text only.
I seem not to be able to apply any specific formatting to the selected text in fact. Perhaps it is not carriage returns, but an "apply" button that I have not spotted.?
CR, Control-CR and Shift-CR all seem to produce soft carriage returns.
I will get there, but I could do with speeding up my editing.
John Clube

For some reason, the html editor for the home page in Settings does not behave the same way as the one in the message editor, and in fact is so misbehaved as to be almost unusable. You might be better served working with the raw html. To do so, click the "hamburger" icon at far right to open the advanced toolbar, then the angle brackets at far right to pop up the html in a dialog box.

Even then, you may have to insert some whitespace into it to get it readable enough to work with. Note also that a lot of constructs will still be stripped when you save. Javascript and iframes, for example, cannot be placed in your home page. The conjecture is that they could serve as a vector for malware, but I've seen a lot of totally benign inline styles like "float:right" get stripped, too.

Good luck,
Bruce

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Bruce

That is well beyond my IT skills, but it is good to know I am not missing something obvious.

I will soldier on, copying back and forth the Word. I am getting there slowly.

Thanks for your help and reassurance.

John Clube

John,

This must be so incredibly easy that only I have problems, I see no
guidance in the help page.

Try this wiki page, as far as I know the home page Description editor works the same as the message (New Topic or Reply) editor:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Message-composition-tips-and-tricks

I am trying to get sections of headers followed by bullet points, then
the same in the next section, ... but I do it by copying to Word then
copying back.

Copying from Word may be part of your problem. Word's formatting structures are very different, and may not copy well into Groups.io's HTML editors.

Word shows soft carriage returns between the lines, which I change to
hard carriage returns before copying back.

Shift+Enter inserts a paragraph break (similar to a hard return); Enter inserts a line break (similar to a soft return). For some formatting (especially blockquote and indent) the distinction is important. For lists though line break seems to work.

I cannot apply bullet points to the selected text only.

To get bullets I was able to type:

Intro[Enter]Item 1[Enter]Item 2[Enter]Next[Enter]

I then moved the cursor back up to Item 1 and selected it and Item 2, then clicked the Bullet List tool. The bullet formatting applies to the selected lines of text, and it is easy to accidentally include preceding or following lines in the selection.

The cursor at the beginning of a line includes that line, so you may need to use the back-arrow key to step back to the end of the prior line if you selected the lines by clicking at the start of Item 1 then using Shift+DownArrow twice.

Shal


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