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You can use the following tags to control the appearance of your text. We have created a document with more examples of text behavior with these tags.

<Hn> </Hn> -- Headline
(The "n" in "Hn" represents a number from 1 to 6.) Prints the text in a bold font with space above and below. There are six headline tags. <H1> is the biggest, <H6> is the smallest.

<STRONG> </STRONG> or <B> </B> -- Strong or bold emphasis
Prints text in a bold font.

<EM> </EM> or <I> </I> -- Emphasis or italic
Prints text in an italic font.

<U> </U> -- Underline
Prints text with an underline.

<CODE> </CODE> -- Code font
Prints text in a monospaced font.

<BIG> </BIG> -- Big
Prints big text.

<SMALL> </SMALL> -- Small
Prints small text.

<FONT COLOR="#FF00FF"> </FONT> -- Font color
Used with six-character codes to set the color of a selection of text.

&nbsp; -- Indent (non-breaking space)
This is a special character that tells the html browser to make a space without going to the next line. Several of these together are an ideal way to indent the first line of a paragraph.

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