Working in the text editor

1. Which text formats are available in the text editor?

  • Headings: H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6

  • Text: Plain, Bold, Italic, Strikethrough, Underline, Inline Code

  • External Link

  • Internal Link

  • Code Block

  • Block Quote

  • Ordered/Unordered List

Text editor formats

2. Which shortcut actions can I take in the text editor?

  • Headings (H1, H2, Н3, H4, H5, H6)

    • You can select a part of the text and click one of the heading buttons in the toolbar to make the selected text a heading. Alternatively, you can type a hashtag (#) followed by a space to create H1, two hashtags (##) followed by a space to create H2, three hashtags (###) followed by a space to create H3, four hashtags (####) followed by a space to create H4, five hashtags (#####) followed by a space to create H5, and six hashtags (######) followed by a space to create H6.

  • Bold (Cmd-B) (CtrI-B)

    • You can select a part of the text and click the bold button in the toolbar to make the selected text bold or remove the bold style if the text is already bold.

  • Italic (Cmd-I) (CtrI-I)

    • You can select a part of the text and click the italic button in the toolbar to make the selected text italic or remove the italic style if the text is already italic.

  • Underline (Cmd-U) (CtrI-U)

    • You can select a part of the text and click the underline button in the toolbar to make the selected text underlined or remove the underline style if the text is alreadv underlined.

  • Strikethrough (Cmd-Shift-X) (CtrI-Shift-X)

    • You can select a part of the text and click the strikethrough button in the toolbar to make the selected text strikethrough or remove the strikethrough style if the text is already strikethrough.

  • External Link

    • You can select a part of the text and click the externali link button to add an external link.

    • Once the external link is added, you can click on it to see the external link tooltip.

    • Here, you have the following actions

      • Visit the link by clicking on it

      • Edit the link by clicking the Edit button

      • Remove the link by clicking the Remove button

    • If you paste an external link, it will automatically turn into a link in the text editor.

  • Internal Link

    • You can press the plus (+) key from the keyboard to activate the internal link tooltip.

    • Here, you have the following actions:

      • Type and search for another doc within the workspace.

      • Type and create a new doc with the title.

  • Code block

    • You can create a code block by typing three backticks (```).

    • The text written in the code block will use a monospaced font and will scroll horizontally.

    • You can exit a code block by moving the cursor outside if the code block is not the last item in the text editor. If the code block is the last item in the text editor, you can exit it by CTRL+Enter key combination.

  • Block Code

    • You can create a code block by typing greater than symbol (>) followed by a space.

    • The text written in the block quote will be indented and visually highlighted.

    • You can exit a block quote by moving the cursor outside if the code block is not the last item in the text editor. If the code block is the last item in the text editor, you can exit it by pressing the Enter key at the end of the block twice.

  • Ordered/Unordered Lists

    • You can create an unordered list by typing dash (-) or star (*) and following that with a spacebar.

    • You can create an ordered list by typing a number followed by a dot followed by a spacebar.

    • Both lists can be indented by pressing the Tab key and unindented by pressing the Shift-Tab key combination.

    • Both lists will continue when pressed enter.

    • In order to exit a list, you can press enter in an empty list item.

  • Inline Code

    • You can create an inline code by either selecting a part of the text and pressing backtick (`) or by typing backtick, typing whatever text, and typing backtick again.

3. What are the embed/upload options for the text editor?

  • You can embed the following elements in docs,

    • YouTube videos

    • Vimeo videos

    • X(formerly Twitter) posts

    • Images (JPG, PNG)

    • PDFS

  • You can upload any file types, including but not limited to:

    • audio files

    • video files

    • text files

  • For any embed or upload, you can simply paste links to the text editor. The editor will automatically detect and appropriately display them.

  • You can upload any type of file to the text editor by either using the insert menu by typing slash (/) or simply drag and drop.

  • We've set a generous file size limit of 200 MB per upload.

Uploads & Media

4. Toolbar

The toolbar contains the following buttons in the following order and the actions are explained above:

  • Create a new linked doc from the selected text (🔗)

  • Unordered List

  • Ordered List

  • Decrease indent

  • Increase indent

  • Headings (H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6)

  • Bold (B)

  • Italic (I)

  • Strikethrough (S)

  • Strikethrough (U)

  • Block Quote (")

  • Code Block (<>)

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