I'll try this - I really appreciate your help.

J

I did more investigation and it looks like the Annotum theme doesn't properly process the Google Docs iframe code to our WordPress.com shortcode. To get around this, you can do one of two things:

1. Link to the Google Docs web link for your form.

2. Create a new, private blog using a different theme that you will use to process your Google forms iframe code into the WordPress.com shortcode. I would recommend using Twenty Eleven or Twenty Twelve for the theme.

You would just write a new post, paste in your Google Form iframe code, and publish. Go in and edit this published post and you should see some code that looks like this (this is the code from your sample above):
[googleapps domain="docs" dir="spreadsheet/embeddedform" query="formkey=dGNKRERVWENGRVpxS09yTTZSLWJvdkE6MQ" width="760" height="625" /]

Then, you can copy and paste that code into your main site's post or page and it will display properly.

Here's a reference on creating a new blog:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/#adding-new-blog-to-an-existing-account

I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

Here is the embed code - <iframe src="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dGNKRERVWENGRVpxS09yTTZSLWJvdkE6MQ" width="760" height="625" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading...</iframe>

I pasted that into the Text tab without touching the visual tab and then published it and this what I got -

http://blog.peerinstruction.net/test-lesson-2/

The post in question has been deleted. Do you have another example where it isn't working for you?

Which indicates this should work - but it does not.

I am pasting the embed link in my blog page in both the visual and the text screen. I made sure the Google Form was public. I tried a Legacy Google Form AND a regular google form. Nothing shows up - here is the published page - http://blog.peerinstruction.net/test-lesson/

You can add a text widget to your sidebar where you can add text and HTML links - perhaps that would work for you? Here's more information on the text widget:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

I hope that helps.

I dont want to have a second menu, but a section to insert text manually.

Similar to the section on funding statement. how can insert another new one?

thanks

http://d.pr/i/UW2I

Use this reference to help you set up two different custom menus that you can select to display:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

For the PDF link, you could add that using the Custom Link menu link. The file would need to be uploaded to your Media Library so you can have a direct link to the file, unless it's already online elsewhere.

With the border, it would all depend on where specifically you want it as the CSS would vary based upon the element you want to style.

I found a great support page for the Annotum theme that has links to a knowledge base and articles that can help you get the most out of this theme and a link to a special help desk where you can contact them for assistance too:
http://annotum.org/support/

I hope that helps get you started!

Is that clear? Do you know what I am saying?

Thanks so much for help

When you mean "additional bar", do you just want to add another border under the subtitle or did you want to add something else?

If you can give me more information, I'll be glad to help you with the right CSS to add.

I'm a big fan of testing and trying things out, I just find it more rewarding and more fun. :)

Try a test blog and import your blog's content as mmadfan suggested, you might find it to be much simpler, and much more enjoyable. You can always just switch your theme away from Annotum on your main blog if you like it. :)

As for TinyMCE, it's a program and we use a lot of it, but not everything. We still filter some code out to keep everything stable and secure around here, so not everything discussed on the TinyMCE site will work on WordPress.com (or even WordPress in general).

As for switching away from Annotum, at the moment I simply want consistency. I'm not ready to move all the articles, mostly because I don't know enough about what "posts" will look like --and who knows what will go wrong and can't be undone?

You could create a test blog and play with it to your heart's content, changing to as many different themes as you like, and simply import your current content to see what it will look like (more or less). Just mark it "private" so it won't be seen by others. I just call mine "mmadfantestblog" -- it's very handy for trying out different ideas.

I don't know anything about Annotum, but I know that in ordinary WordPress.com blogs, you can't use any java script, and I believe that TinyMCE relies on java. You might want to see if that is a problem.

What I've done with Annotum almost qualifies as "nothing at all"; the articles were all imported from the Google Knol system. Only one of them have I tried to edit to any significant degree, and as a result had to break it into two parts, and even now I'm not completely satisfied with the way it turned out (mostly because of the lack of a code for linebreaks).

According to something I saw at the TinyMCE web site, it should be possible to tweak a background function so that when the user presses the Enter/Return key just once, a linebreak code is generated, and when that key is pressed twice, a paragraph break is generated. Who decided that for Annotum no linebreaks would ever be needed --and why can't that person be overruled?

This particular thread/discussion began when I started trying to do a brand-new article. That first message above (and the title) was a result of the frustration that accumulated, when preview after preview failed to look anything like I could get my text to look when using pure HTML.

As for switching away from Annotum, at the moment I simply want consistency. I'm not ready to move all the articles, mostly because I don't know enough about what "posts" will look like --and who knows what will go wrong and can't be undone?

At this point, it's worth noting that Annotum is its own beast, it's not really a WordPress theme so much so that it's an entirely separate product-within-a-product. Nowhere else will you find an entirely separate Article system with its own interface (and no "Text" editor tab). It's entirely unique, and for the most part, functions rather differently than much of the documentation here describes. It's "special" that way. :)

What you're doing with tables is pretty much the best way to go about this in Annotum.

Looking at what you're doing with Annotum right now, it may be more than you need. What you're doing with Articles could easily be done with Posts (essentially Annotum uses Articles like all other themes use Posts), and then everything you experience will match more in line with all of our documentation. If you're interested, we do have over 200 other themes to choose from: http://theme.wordpress.com/

Can you please contact us in Support directly about this and other problems with the Annotum theme?

Annotum is a partner theme and so we need to pass on this information to the team that is working on it after we test what you've reported. The fastest way to do this is to have you contact us directly. http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problems-with-the-quote-function-on-annotum?replies=12#post-756086

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The other thing I've tried is a table. I found that if you use some style="border-width:0;" commands not just in the <table> tag, but also in the <td> tags, then you can make the borders disappear, and the result looks very much like you had used line-breaks instead of a table. I can live with that.

But I'd rather be able to use good old-fashioned line-breaks.

Not to mention that other browsers can be up-to-date AND work fine on WinXP. Simultaneous with the writing of this post here, I have currently open Opera, Chrome, FireFox, and SeaMonkey. All of them are up-to-date, and all of them display the Edit Article page the same way --no "Text" tab. Therefore I can only conclude that this is some stupidity associated with the Annotum Base theme.

Well, that's not a huge disaster --IF ONLY LINEBREAKS COULD BE HANDLED CORRECTLY IN THE WYSIWYG (TinyMCE) EDITOR.

Please give me a line-break code that I can enter into the text-editor that is available when JavaScript is turned off. Thank you!