Bold – select an area of text and click the bold icon
Italics – select a block of text and click the italic icon
Strike Through – Adds a line over your text through your text
Unordered List – creates bullet lists
Ordered Lists – instead of bullets it will auto number your list
Align Left – aligns text to the left
Align Center – centers your text
Align Right – aligns text to the right
Add Hyperlink – select the area of text you wish to be the link and click the link icon. Add the link URL, choose if you want it to open in a new window or the same window.
Remove Hyperlink – use this to remove a link
Split Post – inserts the <!–more–> tag to split your post. This shows just a brief intro on your main blog page with a link to the full post where they can read the rest.
Spell Check – spell checks your text. For on the fly spell checking we recommend using Firefox as your web browser. It has built in spell checking for any text you enter into forms online. Underlines misspelled words in red as you type.
Kitchen Sink – This icon will open the icons outlined below.
Formatting – Use this drop down to select your heading levels. No need to use the paragraph one as WordPress will turn your basic text into paragraphs automatically.
Underline – underline text with this icon
Font Color – change color of a selection of your text
Paste as Plain Text – to paste text copied from another source so as to strip all formatting from the copied source
Paste from Word – to paste from a word doc & remove the unneeded formatting codes that Word will try to add.
Remove formatting – to remove formatting for a selection of text, perhaps cut and pasted from another source
Insert Embedded Media – insert multi media files such as video clips
Insert Character – for adding special characters not available on your keyboard. Things like this ¥, £, ©, Æ, or é.
Outdent – undo an indent
Indent – indent a section of text to create block quotes
Undo – undo your last change
Redo – redo your last undo
Help – This does not offer much help. But it does include a list of hotkeys, in place of using the icons, for fast typers who use the WP editor often.