You have to use your mouse to highlight the anchor text first in your post or page and then the link icon becomes active.

This is the general link model:
<a href="URL HERE">Highlighted anchor text here</a>
This is the visual result but as it's just an example it's not actually linked to a page:
Highlighted anchor text here

Enter the anchor text you want to link to first.
Then use your mouse to highlight that anchor text.
Next click the chain icon in the Visual editor and proceed to create the link.

This is the general link model:
<a href="URL HERE">Highlighted anchor text here</a
This is the visual result but as it's just an example it's not actually linked to a page:
Highlighted anchor text here</a

Enter the anchor text you want to link to first.
Then use your mouse to highlight that anchor text.
Next click the chain icon in the Visual editor and proceed to create the link.

How do you send it email? I have 100 on email list but I can send this to myself and then pass on that way.

There is no mass mailing that you can do here. Your subscribers have to sign up themselves and then they will receive mail copies of your posts. You can publish a post on your other blog that directs followers to your new blog and requests them to subscribe to it.

You can set up email subscriptions on the new blog by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

If you would like a follow button to appear on the bottom right hand corner of your site for those who do not have wordpress.com accounts see here >
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/more-traffic-for-your-blog-with-the-follow-button/
Also note
Invite People to Follow Your Blog
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/#invite-people-to-follow-your-blog

how do I do the SHARE BUTTON

see > http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/

Sharing options are built in to your blog. Go to your Dashboard Sharing page and enable whatever services you like.

Put the Subscription widget in the sidebar and anyone who signs up automatically gets your post emailed to them. There's no way to auto-add an email list; they will have to sign up themselves.

Do you mean how to add a link in the text of the blog? http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/

If you mean how to add a link to your Blogroll, http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/links-widget/

How do I single space blogs, they come out double space

Blog editors and wordproccessers are not the same and do not work the same way. The web standard is one blank line only, so you cannot add more blank lines by pressing return repeatedly like you would do with a typewriter or in a word processing application.

If you are working in the Visual editor, to get single spacing between paragraphs hold the SHIFT key down and simultaneously click ENTER at the end of the paragraph.

If you are working in the HTML (Text) editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/09/13/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing/

How do you add a Link to a blog?

Hi there,
See here for how to create links in posts and pages > http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/

This is the general format of a link:
General link model:
<a href="URL HERE">Highlighted anchor text here</a>

You type the anchor text in first. Then you use your mouse to highlight the anchor text ie. to "select" it. Then you click the link icon and the pop-up box appears for you to type the URL etc. into. Do note that the practice of using "here" as anchor text is not a good one at all. The best practice is to use meaningful anchor text such as the exact title and/or keywords in the title in the article you are linking to.

I write right on the blog page every one of my posts.

Two more questions.
1. How do you add a Link to a blog?
2. How do you send it email? I have 100 on email list but I can send this to myself and then pass on that way.
One more, how do I do the SHARE BUTTON
Can't get it to take.

Tks again, Joan

2) You appear to be copy-pasting from Word or similar. There's your problem. If you want to write offline, use Windows Live Writer or another blog editor, which prevents this problem.

Tks in advance for the answer.

Some links:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

I want my blog to give people recommendations on where to buy certain items so yes, I guess I am advertising for certain stores. Thanks for the help

The reason it's a violation is because you are using someone else's bandwidth without permission and bandwidth costs money. Here's an example: You capture an image from someone else's site without their permission and you link back to it. Thousands of readers click that image on your site which then uses up the bandwidth the other site that the other blogger is paying for.

The guide for creating links in posts and pages is here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/

This is the general link model:
<a href="URL HERE">Highlighted anchor text here</a>

Enter your anchor text you want to link to first. In your case it's the title of the page you want to link to. Then use your mouse to highlight that anchor text. Next click the chain icon in the editor and proceed to create the link to that page.

1) Is this hotlinking and if so, why is it not recommended ?
2) What is the best way to direct readers to the site were I bought this piece ?
3) What are the proper terms I should be using to describe this ?

Thanks.

To make an anchor text link like this one smilesalot1969 you type this first smilesalot1969 and then you highlight it with your mouse, click the chain (link) icon in your editor and enter the URL and the smilesalot1969.wordpress.com title and click insert.
smilesalot1969

This is the general format of a link:
General link model:
<a href="URL HERE">Highlighted anchor text here</a>

You type the anchor text in first. Then you use your mouse to highlight the anchor text ie. to "select" it. Then you click the link icon and the pop-up box appears for you to type the URL etc. into. Do note that the practice of using "here" as anchor text is not a good one at all. The best practice is to use meaningful anchor text such as the exact title and/or keywords in the title in the article you are linking to.