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| width="25%" style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;"|'''Description'''
| style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;"|'''You type'''	
| width="25%" style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;"|'''You get'''
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| colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #B8C7D9; background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;" | ''applies anywhere''
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|Italicise text
|<tt><nowiki>''italic''</nowiki></tt>
|''italic''
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| Bold text
|<tt><nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki></tt>
|'''bold'''
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| Bold and italic
|<tt><nowiki>'''''bold & italic'''''</nowiki></tt>
|'''''bold & italic'''''
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| Internal link<br/>
(within Wikipedia)
|<tt><nowiki>[[name of page]]</nowiki><br/>
<nowiki>[[name of page|display text]]</nowiki>
|[[name of page]]<br/>
[[name of page|display text]]</tt>
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| External link<br/>
(to other websites)
|<tt><nowiki>[http://www.example.com]</nowiki><br/>
<nowiki>[http://www.example.com display text]</nowiki><br/>
<nowiki> http://www.example.com </nowiki>
| [http://www.example.com]<br/>
[http://www.example.com display text]<br/>
http://www.example.com
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|Escape wiki markup
|<tt><nowiki>''markup''</nowiki><br/>
<nowiki><nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki></nowiki></tt>
|''markup'' <br/>
<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>
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| colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #B8C7D9; background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;" | ''applies only at the beginning of the line''
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|Headings<br>
of different sizes
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<tt><nowiki>==level 1==</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>===level 2===</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>====level 3====</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>=====level 4=====</nowiki></tt>
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==Level 1==
===Level 2===
====Level 3====
=====Level 4=====
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|Bullet list
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&#42; one<br>
&#42; two<br>
&#42;&#42; two point one<br/>
&#42; three<br>
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* one
* two
** two point one
* three
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|Numbered list
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&#35; one<br>
&#35; two<br>
&#35;&#35; two point one<br/>
&#35; three<br>
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# one
# two
## two point one
# three
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| Definition list
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&#59;Definition<br>
&#58;item 1<br>
&#58;item 2<br>
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;Definition
:item 1
:item 2
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|Unformatted text
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&nbsp;&nbsp;a space at the<br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;beginning of each line<br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;creates unformatted<br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;monospaced text
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 a space at the 
 beginning of each line 
 creates unformatted
 monospaced text
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|colspan="3" align="center" style="border-top:1px solid #B8C7D9;"|[[Help:Editing|Extended cheatsheet]] <tt>|</tt> [[Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia|More editing help]]
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==See also==
*[[:Image:Cheatsheet-en.png|Cheatsheet image]] and .pdf version, intended for printing.
*Use a sandbox such as [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]] for experimentation with editing.
*[[Wikipedia:The perfect article|The perfect article]] provides a checklist of components required to make a "perfect" article.
[[Category:Wikipedia help|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Wikipedia basic information|{{PAGENAME}}]]
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