Add text by opening a new document or choose a existing document from your list of files and add the required content. You can also insert a text box or shape and type your text within it.
To add, edit or delete text,
Copy (or cut) and paste text within the body of your document, or within a a text box or shape based on your requirements.
Alternatively, you can cut and copy text by right clicking the text you want to be cut or copied and paste it anywhere or by navigating to Clipboard Options.
You can make any piece of text bold to make it stand out in your document.
To bold text,
You can use italicized text when you mention names of journalistic media, radio/tv series, articles, academic papers, books or any work of art. It can also be used to give emphasis to words.
To italicize text,
You can underline text to imply that it is very important and not to be overlooked.
To underline text,
A reader can always notice the difference if you edit text by striking words and not deleting them.
To strike through words,
The Quick Text feature lets you re-use portions of text in your documents by storing them as mini-templates. You can store different types of content in quick text, like custom headers and footers, paragraphs, graphical images, tables, etc,.
To use quick text,
Format Painter lets you copy formatting (bold, italics, underlining, color, etc.) from one piece of text to another.
To use format painter,
Turn on formatting marks to review a document's layout and troubleshoot printing problems. They are an invaluable tool to resolve any formatting issues you might have in your document.
To turn on formatting marks,
Pilcrow | The paragraph symbol or pilcrow follows any new paragraph in a document. |
Line Break | A line break is a break in the current line of text that doesn't create a new paragraph. This is often done using the shortcut Shift+Enter. |
Tab | Any tab in a document will be represented as an arrow pointing to the right. If there are multiple tabs, you'll have multiple arrows. |
Space | The space character helps you to identify multiple spaces that have been added to a text unintentionally. |
Column/Section/Page Break | Any column, section or page break inserted will be shown on enabling the formatting mark as shown in the below image. |
To undo/redo an action,
You can clear formatting and get the plain text in one go without having to remove the formatting options applied to a piece of text, one by one.
To clear formatting,
You can use different text alignments in your document based on the way you present content. Most often, center alignment is used for headings and left alignment for paragraphs. If you want the content to fit in between the left and right margins, you can use justified alignment. Right alignment is used in rare cases like making attributions to authors when you quote them in your document.
To change text alignment,
You can find any text in a document and replace it at one instance or all together. Click here here for further details on Find and Replace.
Drag and Drop is an alternative to copy/paste.
To drag and drop text,
If you want to change the text case of any piece of text, you can select it and change it to the case you want rather than typing it all over again in the desired text case.
To change text case,
Character spacing refers to the loosening or tightening of the space between each letter or character within a block of text.
Adjust the spacing to improve the visual appeal of your document.
To change the character spacing,
You can add superscript (usually numbers) above words to direct the attention of the reader to a description of the word, which will appear as a footnote or an endnote. Superscripts and subscripts are also used in academic documents for representing mathematical or chemical equations.
To turn on superscript/subscript,
Set up autocorrect to replace specific characters with symbols.
To autocorrect as you type,
Steps to Translate Content in Zoho Writer
Open the document you want to translate
On the left panel, go to Tools > Review > Translate Content.
In the Content Translation menu, choose the target language from the drop-down list. (Writer auto-detects the source language)
Translation options:
Save it as a new document. The entire document’s text is automatically loaded on the left side of the panel. You can choose to either replace the original content with the translated version.
Select the content you want to translate.
Right-click and click Translate content to.
Choose your target language. The translated content will appear inline, right next to or replacing the original. You can now review, edit, and share the translated content or document as needed.
Note:
If you're a collaborator, you must have edit or share access to the document you want to translate.
You must be connected to the Internet to use the translation feature.
If you save the translated content as a new document, the original document remains unchanged, and translated document opens in a new tab.
When translating specific parts of a document, ensure that you select at least 50 valid characters (excluding spaces, special characters, emojis, and Unicode).
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