Excellent question, Cindy. Don’t be embarrassed at all. I’m sure there are a bunch of other moms breathing a sigh of relief right now and thinking, “Oh, good, I’m glad she asked that!”
I’ll take a stab at answering (since Doug taught me some of this stuff) and whatever I goof up he can straighten out. 🙂
If you want to make a word or phrase appear in italics, type the italics-code at the front and back of the word or phrase. The beginning of the code is typed by doing a shift-comma key for the < ; then type the letters “em” ; then type the shift-period key for the closing > . At the end of the word or phrase that you want italicized, do the same thing but insert a slash (no-shift-question-mark key) in front of the “em.”
Hmmm, . . . I’m not sure I’m helping here. Does that make any sense?