Google started messing around with Blogger's very useful quick-edit tools in early 2021, but today there is a new issue affecting some users.
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These tools are little icons of pencils, visible only to the signed-in blog owners, that link a published post directly to its edit page.
Very handy for making quick revisions, and other work.
Recently, some who had managed to retain this feature through the chaos of the past year and a half report that these pencils have vanished.
Here is how to get them back.