HTML in EBAY for NEW MAC USER! Please Help!

Hi, I am a brand new MAC user. Just bought a MACBOOK last week. Here is my HTML prob. I sell on ebay. I called apple support and they were not able to help me. When I list my item on eBay, HTML comes up in the description area. On my older PC it was regular readable english and NOT html gobble de gook. Anyone know how to switch over from the HTML junk so I can see the regular english and write about my product? thanks so much. Sorry, I am not a computer guru. I only know how to read email and sell on ebay

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Sounds like they are using non-standard HTML. Try using a different web browser*:
http://www.macmaps.com/browser.html
Also verify it isn't your e-mail program that is open when you are viewing the file. Anything via e-mail which can't be converted by an e-mail program will display as just plain HTML. Look to the right of the Apple logo on your top left corner to see which program is active.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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I know there are many posts on this topic and i have
probably read and tried them all. I am a new user to
Mac (got sick of PC's). I recently purchased a used
iMac G4 with office installed and was upgraded to
10.4.4 (it came with 10.3 disks).
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kids bought and have tried to reinstall (seems to go
all the way through)it using my disk and also a
updated software restore I found in one of the posts
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