CS5 Properties Bar Edit Text gone

Just upgraded from cs3 to 5 and when I am in the body of my pages, I do not have the ability to edit text as I used to. What I mean I do not have the ability to click and highlight text and bold it, or center it, or change its colour. All of these setting were in the bottom properties. Now I am seeing much less choice in the properties bar. Is it something I have to turn on, or install? Sorry if this seems silly.

No not silly at all but what it signifies is that you're about to change the way you used to do things (like styling text). Back in the old days, you could use non-semantic and horrible code like font tags, and attributes like "align=center". Those days are over.
So some examples for you to parse through -
This will be our example HTML code:
<p class="testCSS">This is a paragraph of text</p>
Let's style this paragraph. Between our <head></head> tags we'll add the following: <style></style>
And in between <style> and </style> we'll add CSS code like this:
.testCSS{
Let's say we want that text to be centered, a bit larger than the surrounding text, and an increased line-height
.testCSS{
text-align:center; /*or left or right or justified*/
font-size: 1.4em;
line-height:1.4em;
Let's say we want that text bold. We'll add <strong></strong> tags around the text we want bolded. For italicized we use <em></em> tags around the text we want italicized.
<p class="testCSS"><strong>This</strong> is a <em>paragraph</em> of text</p>
Fundamentally you're going to need to learn Dreamweaver is not a word processor and that for best results you will need to learn HTML and CSS.
Hope this helps.

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