Email basic - formatting controls?

I'm working with the "basic" view because the "newest Yahoo email" is junk.

Unfortunately it seems that the "basic" view has no formatting controls (bold, italic, underline, hyperlink) when a new message is being composed - or at least, I haven't been able to find any.

Has anyone using the "basic" view been able to access the formatting controls that were available in the previous Yahoo email version?

PS: in an earlier post I reported that Outlook.com was one of the free webmail services whose developers were smart enough to retain a design similar to the previous Yahoo email. I thought that I could open an account there and enable access to my Yahoo email account.

It turns out that you can only access your Yahoo email account from Outlook.com if you're using Yahoo Plus email - in other words, the paid version. If you have a gmail account, you won't have this problem with accessing your account from Outlook.com.

Yahoo marches on.