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Here are some of the tricks I have learned from playing around with the wiki.
--jlh 14:34, 13 Feb 2006 (PST)

==Heading One==
===heading two===

and so on …..
(these will be used to automatically create a Table of Contents)

'''bold'''  (these are single quote marks)

''italic''  (these too)

<u>underline</u>

*bullet item

**sub bullet item

and so on ….

#numbered list item

##subnumber item

and so on ….

[[new page name]]

[http://www.examplelinkname.com whatever you want the link to say]

Once you have created a page, you can lose the link by changing it’s name, but you can change the words to be clicked on and use the original page name like so:

[[page name|whatever you want the link to say]]

----    will put a line across the page

if you want to manually insert a return at the end of a line use<br>

For something more advanced, you can create a table like so (this is a 2-column table):

{|

| colspan=2 | Table Title

|-

| column 1 row 1 item || column 2 row 1 item

|-

| column 1 row 2 item || column 2 row 2 item

|}