The wordpress editor menu

When adding a new post or page, the classical wordpress editor shows up like this:

Much can be said about these. Let us start with a short description.

Know that (a) is your VISUAL tab and (b) is your TEXT tab. We start with the visual tab, since it allows you to view your formatting . What can we do in this tab screen:

1. Set your headers
2. Bold and italic
3. Ordered and unordered lists
4. Quote
5. Alignement
6. Link
7. Open an extra format menu witch shows extra possibilities
8. Fonts and colors
9. Paste in plain text. Unless you toggle this off
10. Shadow
11. Special.characters
12. Indent of your text
13. UnDo and redo