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Editing an existing page
In its simplest form, editing an existing page is a straightforward as clicking a button and typing away!
You can do this for the whole page by clicking the edit tab at the top of the page or for each section by clicking the small [edit] link on the right by the section heading.
Do so now (using your browser's Back button to periodically return to this page). Click the edit tab at the top of this page and have a look at the edit window. You will see the same text you are reading here but without the formatting.
The formatting that you see when this page is displayed is achieved by the use of special symbols or codes which are placed around individual words or sections of text to tell your browser how it should render them. For instance the word symbols in this sentence is written in the edit window with double inverted commas around it. It is displayed however in italics.
''symbols''
[becomes]
symbols
The section headings are surrounded by double equal signs (=). So this section begins
== Editing an existing page ==
To a certain extent that is all there is to it. Type some text and add formatting to it as required. I'm not going to list all of the formatting codes here. A full list can be found in the Wikimedia Help Pages and this is meant as a quick guide to editing the SLT Archive Project.
