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=Page Header= To do this put = before and after your header. '''Bold''' To make a word or text bold put three commas before and after the word or text ===To add a picture=== To add a picture you first need to put the 'code' in: image:image1.jpg '''BUT''' with two brackets at both sides [[ ]] once you have added the 'code' above save your page. Then you can upload your picture to the techwiki buy clicking on the red piece of code where your image should be as shown: [[image:makepage5.jpg|thumb|left|Click me to make larger]] {{clr}} Once you have clicked on the red piece of code it will take you to a page like this: [[image:makepage6.jpg|thumb|left|Click me to make larger]] {{clr}} Just click the 'browse' button and it will open up a standard windows search box, locate the picture you want to upload and click o.k., then click the 'upload file' button. You should now have uploaded your file with no problems and will be looking at the file uploading into the techwiki like so: [[image:makepage7.jpg|thumb|left|Click me to make larger]] {{clr}} now when you go back to your page you will see the image on your wiki page. ===Picture size options=== here are the picture size options 'code' you will need to add to make the image look and fit in with your page the way you want: remember above we showed you: image:image1.jpg now to make the image a 'thumb' sized image as shown on this page you need to add image:image1.jpg|thumb after BUT still keeping the [[ ]] before and after. now to make that thumb 'sit' on the left/centre/right of your page add image:image1.jpg|thumb|left after and finally to add a small piece of text under your image just type it in after as shown: image:image1.jpg|thumb|left|Click me to make larger ===Spelling=== A great way to help those who aren't lexicographers produce easily understood wiki articles, is to use either the [http://www.mozilla.com Firefox browser] with an added [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3 British English (en-gb) spelling checker] or the excellent [http://www.iespell.com iespell] for those who use Internet Explorer. ===External Help=== A good page of instructions on how to use/edit this wiki [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page How to Edit a Page] A similarly excellent how-to for images [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax Embedding Images] A cribsheet for wiki markup [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet Cheatsheet] Examples of wiki markup [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples Wikitext Examples]
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