Adding Text to a Workspace

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Use text boxes, notecards, and shapes to add text to a workspace. Formatting options vary based on the tool you use to add text.
 

Adding Text

1. Select the Text button from the workspace toolbar.

2. Hover your cursor over the workspace area where you want to place your text, and select to insert it. The text box appears in the workspace along with its associated toolbar.

3. As you type or paste text into the text box, it will expand horizontally. When you select the text box, anchor points appear on each side, allowing you to grab and extend or reduce the text box’s width.
    
   
    

4. Use the toolbar options to format your text. A checkmark in the dropdown font menu indicates your current font selection.
   

   

 
After you select and use a toolbar option, the focus returns to the text box.

Editing Text

Edit mode allows you to modify specific content within the text box; all actions available in Edit mode are specific to the text you highlight.
 

There are two ways to edit a text box:

• Double-select the text box.
• Single-select the text box to highlight it, then press Enter (PC) or Return (Mac) on your keyboard.

When a text box is selected but not in Edit mode, you have access to all of the same text formatting options in the toolbar, and changes you make will apply to all of the text in the text box.

BluePro Tip: Double-clicking an object when it is part of a multi-selection will immediately activate text edit mode.

Live Text Editing

Other users in the workspace will see text edits live as well as a visual indicator showing who is currently editing the text.
 

Text Toolbar (left to right)

Icon	Description
	Text color selection. :
Font	Select one of the 33 available fonts. You can enter text in over 580 languages. Noto Sans SC is a fallback font used when a character is unavailable in your selected font.
Font size	Select a numeric value that aligns with how large or small the text appears or use the increase/decrease buttons. The default font size is 12 at the recommended 100% zoom level.
	Select bold, italics, underline, and strikethrough.
	Arrange or organize text alignment within the text box.
	Add bullets, numbering, or checkboxes
	Highlight text in default yellow or the last selected highlight color. If text is already highlighted with a color, (Highlight) removes the color from the text. Use the dropdown arrow to choose a default or custom color. The selected color remains persistent in the toolbar.
	Add a hyperlink to the selected text.
	Locks the text to its current workspace location.
	Allows a reaction to the text box.
	Add comments to the text box.
	View and select additional actions available based on the workspace object.

33 Available Fonts

Select to view the font list

• Aleo
• Architects Daughter
• Balsamiq Sans
• Barlow Semi Condensed
• Bebas Neue
• Caveat
• Comfortaa
• Cormorant Garamond
• Cormorant
• Fredoka One
• Gruppo
• Hepta Slab
• Indie Flower
• Inter
• Josefin Slab
• Lato
• Merriweather
• Montserrat
• Nothing You Could Do
• Noto Sans SC
• Noto Serif
• Open Sans
• Overlock
• Patrick Hand
• Permanent Marker
• Raleway
• Roboto Slab
• Rock Salt
• Source Code Pro
• Source Sans Pro
• Yrsa
• Zilla Slab

In addition to the Latin alphabet, Bluescape supports Japanese, Cyrillic, Greek, and Simplified Chinese.

Scaling text

You can scale your text using your mouse to drag the anchor points on the text box’s border.

1. Select the Text tool.

2. Place the text box in your workspace.

3. Enter your text.

4. Select the text box to highlight it.

5. Using your mouse, right-select and drag the corners to achieve the desired font size.
    
   

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Now, go try it in your workspace!