# Hard to find the Markdown help button

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hard-to-find-the-markdown-help-button/258180>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [March 15, 2023, 5:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hard-to-find-the-markdown-help-button/258180 "2023-03-15T05:59:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 6:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hard-to-find-the-markdown-help-button/258180/2 "2023-03-15T06:24:10Z")

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The composer toolbar has the options in, which would format the text for you and show you how it would work if you wanted to add the Markdown \[1\] manually. Is this not more helpful than a link that would take you to some documentation outside of the message you’re writing?

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1. and some BBCode depending on what you’re adding

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