No, Amos: you rudely & ill-temperedly underrate me, for motives I find it difficult to fathom. I have no difficulty with the ital & bold &c functions, which I use frequently & without too much difficulty; but still don't see why they have to be so elaborately more complicated than the methods obtaining on other sites, & on WP systems generally. The blue-clickies, as shown by the helpful posts from Maeve & Will above, are so complex that I can't think why anyone bothers with them {but thank you, Will & Maeve, nevertheless}.

If you, Amos, wish to address me again, kindly mind [& mend] your manners, & moderate your modes of expression. I don't see why I should be expected to have any dealings with ill-bred yobbos of the sort you seem, for reasons which, I reiterate, I cannot comprehend, to wish to appear to be.

~Michael~