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P N G image of the Wikipedia cheatsheet, which shows how to do various editing tasks, such as placing words into italics; making sections, lists and tables; or adding images.

It can be hard at first to remember the various methods for formatting Wikipedia text: how to make words italic or subscripted, how to make tables and lists, or how to add images and references. The toolbar of 22 edit buttons can help with some of these tasks, but Wikipedia also provides a "cheatsheet" with common editing tasks. Here are four methods for finding this cheatsheet.

Download it to your computer

The simplest approach is to download a PDF of the cheatsheet onto your computer. The following link leads to the English version of the cheatsheet:

  • http:commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cheatsheet-en.pdf

Click on "Editing help" next to the edit summary

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