After adding a text section, click the Edit icon in the section header to open the section in editing mode. An intuitive text editor allows users to enter free text and offers the following basic functionality:
- Bold - make text bold
- Italic - make text italic
- Underline - give text an underline
- Strikethrough - give text a strikethrough
- Subscript - make text subscript
- Superscript - make text superscript
- Remove Format - remove all formatting from the selected text
Note: the only supported way to cut, copy, or paste in text sections is by using these buttons
- Cut - move text from one place to another
- Copy - duplicate text
- Paste - paste text that is copied or cut from another place
- Paste as Plain Text - paste text that is copied or cut from another place without headers, url, or other formatting
- Paste from Word - paste text using Word document format
- Undo - undo an action
- Redo - redo an undone action
Format - change paragraph format
Font - change font
Size - change font size
- Insert/Remove Numbered List - make or remove a list with numbers
- Insert/Remove Bulleted List - make or remove a list with bullet points
- Decrease Indent - move a paragraph to the right
- Increase Indent - move a paragraph to the left
- Align Left - align text to the left
- Centre - centre text, there is an even gap on each side of every line of text
- Align Right - align text to the right
- Justify - spread text evenly across the entire line with adjusted letter and word spacing
- Link - insert a link to a website
- Unlink - remove a link
- Insert Experiment Link - insert a link to another experiment
- Table - insert a table
- Insert Horizontal Line - insert a horizontal line
- Insert Special Character - insert a special character
- Insert Image from Your Computer - insert an image from your computer (Note: other options to insert an image are not supported)
- Insert Formula - create and insert a formula; to edit a formula, select the field and click the Insert Formula button
- Text Colour - change the text color
- Background Colour - change the background for a selected text or highlight a text
- Find - search for a word
- Replace - search for a word and replace it with another word
- Mendeley - insert a Mendeley reference (Note: this button is only visible if the user has activated the Mendeley add-on in Marketplace)