Working with Text

1. Add Text to a Diagram
2. The Text Edit Toolbar De-Mystified

How do I format Text?

There are essentially 2 ways to add Text to your diagrams.

• You can add text to any object using the Edit Text button from the object's contextual toolbar. This will reveal the Text Edit toolbar, and you can simply start typing.



• Click on the Text Element Button (from the Main Toolbar) and click anywhere on the drawing canvas to start typing. When you're done, hit the TAB key to commit your Text or ESC to Cancel.

The Text Edit Toolbar De-Mystified

The Text Edit Toolbar appears under your Text each time you enter Text Edit mode. This is where you can format text, position text elements, add hyperlinks, etc. We love our contextual Text Edit toolbar and we hope you enjoy using it. Here's a button-by-button run down of the Text Edit Toolbar.

• Text Position button
  The first button is the Text Position button. Text Position lets you choose the relative position of the text field to its parent shape.



• Word Wrap Button
  The second button on the Text Edit toolbar is the Wrap Text button. Text in Creately is wrapped within the object by default. Click this button to unwrap text

Wrapped Text (default mode)



Unwrapped Text



• Text Formatting buttons
  This set of buttons let you easily set the Font face, size and style (Bold, Italics, Underline). We currently support a fine list of Open Fonts.



• Text Color, Alignment and Bullet buttons
  The second row of buttons lets you set a Text Color, align Text to the Left,Right, Center or Justified.You can also create an unordered list with bullets.



• Create Hyperlinked Text
  
  The final text field on the Text Edit Toolbar lets you create hyperlinks to external web locations. This is great for Sitemaps and Wireframe Mockups. Simply enter any web URL (e.g. http://www.yahoo.com) to create hyper-linked text and hit TAB to commit your change.