Okay, I'm ashamed to ask these questions, because I should probably already know, but here goes:

Is there a way to spell check a post?

How do topics move down the board? It seems to not have a distinct pattern (for instance, two birthday threads are up, but other, newer topics have moved out of the top five) even if they have newer posts.

Also, I know it's been reviewed before, but how does one add italics and other changes?

thanks,

Sara

Sara,
I usually write all my posts on Word. I just don’t trust my spelling in English so I like to use spellcheck . When I am done, I highlight the whole message, copy it and paste it to the comment box in Goodreads. To use the keyboard command to paste here you only have to press “ctrl” followed by the letter “V”. Just make sure that cursor is flashing inside the comment box.


To use italics or bold you need to use the html commands as described in the site. Just click on the where it says “(some html is ok)” on top of the comment box for some instructions

ah, excellent. Thanks, Capitu.

If you use firefox as your browser, it will red underline misspelled words.

Theresa

So does Safari. But it thinks "GoodReads" is misspelled.

Oh, now, that is really interesting, because after I somehow got a fake "your computer is infected" virus program scam on my machine (which is pretty new), my brother, who is, well, a computer/software guy from way back (think the 12th employee at a certain now huge place) insisted I download Firefox.

But more often than not I link into CR from the notifications I receive (in Thunderbird email) and when I do that it always comes up in Explorer.

So now I've tested this and reset my Firefox script things and there you go! It works.

Excellent. Thanks so much, Theresa.

Think it's because of the capital R, Sherry?

Sara

Sara writes "But more often than not I link into CR from the notifications I receive (in Thunderbird email) and when I do that it always comes up in Explorer",
I don't know Thunderbird but most email programs have a setting which dictates which browers software is used as default. If you change this to Firefox it should use that one instead of IE.

thanks, Sheila--I'll check that out.

Sara

Thanks, Capitu, for pointing out what the (some html is ok) link is for!

I'm not curious enough when it comes to computer-related stuff.

Thanks!

Hello Writer and Reader,

You also asked about topics moving up and down the board - we have a facility to keep certain topics on the board - for example, the Reading List or the Voting is kept for the duration since it is something that someone may want to refer to easily or that we would like new people to be able to see. Other topics can float as and when they are current. However, if you look for the button underthe bos 'search discussion posts' on the right of your screen you will see a place where you can click on 'unread topics' and that will bring up any that you have not read whether they are current or not. Hope that helps.

Sheila wrote: "Sara writes "But more often than not I link into CR from the notifications I receive (in Thunderbird email) and when I do that it always comes up in Explorer",
I don't know Thunderbird but most e..."

We use Mozilla which is firefox. My husband does not like IE.

And, Sara, the topics that are starred stay at the top of the folder. That way, we can avoid having things like the reading schedules get buried at the bottom of the pile. Everything else moves up as it receives posts (or down as it doesn't).

I think it was a great idea to ask the questions. There is always someone else who can use the answers as well.