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Xerpi continues to surprise me with new things! Here's some secret tricks I've discovered when creating link blocks and adding favorites.

Did you know you can...

• Format your favorites
  It's possible to italicize words in the name of a favorite — or display some of the words in bold print! It's the same formatting tags that work on web pages — add <I> before the words to italicize, and </I> where you want the italics to stop! (Or for bold, use <B> and </b>)

• Copy a link block.
  Xerpi lets you create a link block that's filled with nothing but links from another link block!

  Xerpi already lets you move a link block into a different view. (Just hold your mouse over the block's blue title bar. Your cursor turns into crosshairs which let you drag the block onto the view's tab, which creates the copy!) But if the block is on a "public" or "shared" view, Xerpi creates a copy of the block on the second view instead!

  I realized this meant I could copy any block — just by temporarily changing the view that it's on into a public view! Then dragging that block to a different view will create a copy of all its links — and I can drag that link block back to whichever view I want!

• Reverse the order of links.
  There's another interesting quirk I discovered after mistakenly creating a block of favorites in reverse alphabetical order. After I dragged the block over the tab for another view, and then dragged the resulting copy back into my first view...the order of the links had been reversed! This saved me the trouble of having to re-arrange all the links into the right order.

• Hyperlink a Link Block Title.
  It's possible to link to a specific web in the title of a link block. Just put the URL in between "anchor tags," like this!
  <a href=" url goes here "> the word to hyperlink </A>

• Give Your Link Block a Subtitle
  I've seen several people using this trick on Xerpi already. If you want to leave a short description below the title of a link block, just write it as the "title" of the first favorited link.

I guess you learn something new every day!