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2) I added a custom button that when clicked calls the _Format function passing the parameters "Editor,'setStyle','pull'" .....
       pretty much the same as what the style listbox does. But when a user selects some text say 123 and then
       clicks this custom button it generates the following:
       123<FONT class=pull></FONT>
       When I try and debug the code, I see that when it looks to see what text is selected it comes back with "".
       Is there something I am missing??