The Rich-Text Field Type lets you apply a variety of text formatting. It is the ideal element for including elaborate instructions with bold, italic, underlined or bulleted text. The Rich-Text Field can also be used on a form so that end-users can enter rich text as part of the business process they are working on.

The field settings includes a WYSIWYG style text editor, similar to those used in word-processing programs. The toolbar has several icons which should be familiar to most users.

A list of the icons and their functions follows: