As Yahoo! Mail gets better, this has gotten easier and easier. Now it’s just a link at the top of your Compose window – you can click it anytime you want.

1. Click Compose in the upper-left corner of your Mail page.
2. A blank Compose page opens. To the right of the Subject box is a link – if you’ve been composing in Plain Text, you’ll see Rich Text, which you can click to begin composing in a different font or color or size or style. Super!
3. If you’re composing in Rich Text, you’ll see the link next to the Subject box change to Plain Text. You guessed it – clicking this now puts you back into plain-text mode.

Once in Rich Text, you can write your text first, then change the look of it, or you can make your style choices first and then write your text with the new look activated. Here’s how:

• To change the look of your text after you write it, drag the pointer over your message to select it, then click whatever color, font, style choices you want to make in the toolbar.
• To make your color, font or style choices first, click the options in the toolbar, then write your text.