Hi Sondra....I am not sure I am and expert in this ...but I use scribefire.     I downloaded and installed it.   How it works for me is that I click on tools and open up Scribefire....type my blog in there...and pretty it up with color and size of font.   Then I copy and paste it into my blog.    There may be an easier way...but that works for me!  LOL  

The only thing I don't like is that i can't right click...I have to go to the top of the page and click edit...next to file.  

Let me know if you have other questions and I will try to help!  
Good Luck!

Okay, so I will totally be your sensei.  This is one of the first things I learned when I joined AR.  There is a Chrome add-on or it also goes in FireFox browser.  It's called Scribefire.  You can make larger text, add links and change the color.  It has the script with the line through, too.  The only thing I don't do in there is add pictures, because I can't always get the size right, like I can with the AR picture tool.  

If you have more questions, please feel free to call me/email me.

Thanks, Sondra and I will probably take you up on that contest!

HI Sondra,

I also use Scribefire - not all the time, but a lot.  And I can attest that you can do a lot with your text and colors.  The Scribefire logo is sitting on my Chrome status bar now. 

Best of good success to you this year!

Sondra,

To be very honest I have never heard of Scribefire until Today.

If you want text like this>

I can show YOU how to do it, without another add on to slow down chrome.

Well I like Linda's comment, so I will bookmark this for future reference, because I've had the same questions. I'm pretty happy with what I'm doing, and I do more blogging than any other agent in my area. But I see some blogs that look really cool because of colored text, and I want to do that. Great question, Sondra.

Two ways I know, edit in Google Mail changing font size and limited colors and bring over, and also as others mentioned using Scribefire. I thought you had to use Firefox from Mozilla as the browser but I think it works as Jordon said as a plug in with Chrome too. Many bloggers go crazy with color or changes in font size or style, when what they really need to work on is writing and CONTENT. Personally I am blue in the face from Day One at Active Rain (2007) submitting my request to put font size and colors into the basic editor but they won't do it.

Sondra  Let me say 'thanks' for asking this question.  That would have been the question I would have asked for this contest.  Now, I'm off searching my brain for everything else I don't know.  Enjoy the day!

Hi Sondra - Thanks for participating in the Sensei/Grasshopper challenge. It looks like you're going to get the help you're looking for, but let me know if you need anything.

Thanks for the tip for Scribefire. Sluggish, but working on it - THANKS!

Well, it looks like you have received all the help you will need on this, and I learned that Scribefire also works in Chrome!  Woo HOO   Who Knew?

I use google mail to compose my blog, get the fonts and colors in (though they are limited in NUm of choices) and then copy and paste.  However when you copy and paste, for some reason in both google mail and scribefire, I find that it doeesn't work when you use the ctrl c ctrl v shortcuts. You need to right click and do the copy and paste that way. 

Hi Sondra,

This is one of the first things I learned after coming to ActiveRain. If you type your post in Word and do all the colors, bold, fonts, and underlines, then open the AR "Write a blog post" and highlight your draft, hold your mouse down and then just slide it over to the AR post . Here you will see a small box, then let go of the mouse and and it will appear. Practice with it and you will be pleased. I cannot do all the fonts but usually just do a few of my favorites.

Comic

, Calibri, or Georgia.

Comic, Calibri, or Georgia.

PS. If you lose your draft, go back to Word and type Control Z and it will return.

Kristin -- I believe that M$ Word is a very poor way to get your colors and fonts. If you look at the html code that M$ Word produces, it is quite wasteful in the volume of code that it produces. M$ Word does work as you say. 

Scribefire only produces enough code to get the font changes you want.

Sondra-Check out the new features on the toolbar when you comment and post. COLOR and Different size FONTS to name a few. Cool huh