How To Follow the HowToDoThings Formatting Guidelines

1. Read the specific instructions related to your article very carefully. You will find these at the top of the "Write an Article" page directly below the "Title" and "Status" fields.
2. Include any tips, warnings or links. Just beneath the "Cost" and "Difficulty" fields you will find spaces where you can add any required tools, quick tips, warnings, related links, etc. This is where you can include any additional information that may be related to your article, but is not necessarily involved in the "how to" steps.
3. Incorporate a numbered list in the body of your article. You may include an introductory paragraph, but the majority of the article needs to be written in a step by step format. You can add numbers to your list of steps by highlighting the entire section of the article that should be numbered and selecting the numbered list icon on the toolbar above the content management area. This will add numbers to any line break that you have created. You may also use the same process (highlighting the appropriate content and selecting the bullet list icon) to create a bulleted list within any of the article steps.
4. Add any necessary line breaks. At this point your article should be numbered and formatted appropriately. You can add line breaks to tidy up the article and make it easier to read by holding down the "shift" key and then hitting enter. This will allow you to add a line break between numbers, bullets and sentences. Please add these to the article as you see fit.

We recommend that you take some time to play around with the toolbar provided and preview (without submitting) the results so that you are aware of all of your formatting options. If your article is not formatted correctly we may reject it. Please review all of the available fields and make sure that you understand how the article should be set up and where each piece of information you plan to include should go.