The Text Editor is basically a few buttons, hopefully you see them at the top of the box that you type into when you edit some text. They look like the ones you get in Word or OpenOffice - B for bold, I for italic, and others for bullets etc.

They work well with Firefox and Internet Explorer. If you're using Opera, Konqueror or Safari then they won't work so well, if at all - please try Firefox.

If you are using Firefox or IE, and still don't see the buttons, then make sure you have Javascript turned on in the Preferences or Settings.