How can I use my keyboard to make a word in Italic, not using MS Word?

Question

I have a Dell standard keyboard about 5 years old. Now, I know how to use the MS Word & yahoo mail to change the fonts, colors & size. Now, If I'm at other website they use all Verdana fonts, but I noticed that some of the members there may add a word for example like the word (maybe) only it comes out looking like a Italic style with that slanted look it gives. Is there a trick to use my current keyboard to use a special 1 or 2 keys to that Italic font?
Also do the newer keyboards today comes with those special keys to produce Bold, Italic & underline keys built in the newer ones? I would appreciate any help that any of you Computer high techies can give me. thank you for your time & support. ☺

Answer 1

Words on web pages follow different rules from words being entered into text boxes on those pages. You can't usually put in anything other than straight text in text boxes unless the web site accepts HTML (which is a security risk).



And there aren't any special Bold, Italic, etc., keys on the keyboard.



Sorry.

Answer 2

Keyboard Shortcut For Italics

Answer 3

Your keyboard is just a keyboard. It is the software that tells it what font or how to present a font.



If you are posting on a forum or a blog and it supports HTML you can simply add a small HTML command to make things appear italic, bold, and underlined.



Code = Italics

Example:

Isn't this fun?



This is the tag for bold text.

Example:

Howdy



If you want to view web pages in a different font it will be in your tools option.

Answer 4

If there is, I've never heard of it. But I do have a thought that might work. Pick up both a typical sized hardcover and a typical sized paperback. By typical sized I'm not refering to the number of pages, but rather the width and length of the pages themselves. Since the pages of a hardcover are typically larger than those of a paperback, they will tend to have more words per page. Do not pick up a large print book unless you intend to have your novel printed as such. Now pick a page in both, not one that starts a chapter or ends a chapter, you want one filled with plenty of words. A lot of books I've run into Have a bit of space on the page that starts a new chapter and pages that end a chapter may not always be filled. This is why you need to make sure the page is filled with plenty of words to the story. Take and count the number of words for each type of book, taking note of the dimensions of the page for that type (ie, the lenght and width). Now print out a page of your novel that would corespond to the pages you just got the word count off. By corresponds I mean that the page would not be the first or last page of a chapter. I believe the typical sheet of printer paper is 8.5" x 11", but you may wish to make sure what it's length and width are. Now count the number of words on the sheet and compare to the number on the hardcover and paperback you checked out. You may be able to use this to figure out how many pages you're looking at for your novel already.

Answer 5

If the site allows HTML then you would use:



Your word



If it's a forum/discussion board, they generally use square brackets:



[i]Your word[/i]



To answer your other question, no the newer keyboards do not have any special keys for these things.



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Answer 6

It's not a Windows Standard keyboard shortcut, but the generic shortcut that a lot of text editors use to italicize font is Ctrl + I (capital i, not lower L)

Answer 7

it's ctrl+i but i don't know that it works in any other than ms word

i hope it does