I've been struggling with editing my webpages on a couple of my WordPress websites.  I use the visual editor and the HTML editor, but was finding that a lot of my affiliate links were being stripped out when I switched from one to the other.  On the verge of dumping WordPress and going back to Dreamweaver to build my websites, I turned to the Forums and stumbled upon a post by Welshy giving advice to another WA member who was having the same problem.  The solution:  install the TinyMCE Advanced plugin. 

So, I installed the plugin and of it works like a charm! (after I remembered to adjust the settings)  It even has a button to insert tables, which I was adding by manually typing the code.  I love it! 

Thank you Welshy!!