Text
Add headings and notes to a canvas.
A text widget holds free-form text: a title for a section of the canvas, a note explaining a chart, or any context the numbers don't carry on their own. It has no data binding. For how widgets fit together, see Build a canvas.
Add a text box
In edit mode, click Add widget and then Add text at the top of the widget library, or right-click empty space and choose Add new item, then Text. For the other kinds of widget, see Create a widget.
Write and format
Text widgets have no editor panel; you write directly in the widget while in edit mode, starting from the placeholder Start writing.... Type / on an empty line to add a block: Heading 1, Heading 2 or Heading 3, an Unordered List or an Ordered List, or a table.
Select some text and a toolbar appears with:
- H1, H2 and H3, to turn the line into a heading; press the line's own level again to turn it back into text.
- A link, a highlight (marker) for emphasis, bold and italic.
Blank lines are kept. A gap you leave between two paragraphs to space them out survives a save and reads back the way you wrote it.
Size
A text box takes the height of its text, two lines at least, so there is no empty space under a short note and no scrolling inside a long one. You only set its width, by dragging its right edge.
Edit and remove
Text is editable in edit mode only. In view mode it's read-only, and it reads as page text: no frame around it, as wide as the widgets around it. Right-click a text box in edit mode and choose Delete to remove it. Text widgets don't have the export or expand actions that data widgets do.