Actually, this is posted as a "Quick Reply", and it does have italics. There's a clue if you look to the left when posting: it says "UBBCode is enabled". The UBBCode for italics is an 'i' in square brackets: [i ]like this[/i ], but without the spaces.

There's a button to "Switch to Full Reply Screen", which may help. It will preserve what you've written so far.

Raptor, your English is better than that of at least half of the population of the U.S.

My one-word knowledge of maybe five languages and my ten words of Spanish simply can't compete.

Thanks a lot, Susan. It still needs a lot of work though.