Add text elements

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1 Insert paragraphs

Every time you press the Enter key on your keyboard, a new paragraph is inserted.

2 Insert spaces

Inside the text, the user is prevented from adding more than one space between two words.

3 Formatting text

Inside the document text, common formatting options (Bold, Italic, Underline, subscript and superscript) can be applied to selected characters, word(s), sentence(s), paragraph(s) or entire clause(s).
Formatting options are available from the START tab, and more advanced text formatting can be accessed from the sub-menu.

Markup of symbols for variable quantities can be formatted form the START menu as follows:

Please note

Any text contained in any element (tables, captions, keys etc) can be formatted.

4 Inserting symbols/special characters

To insert a symbol (aka special characters) in the text of your document, from the START menu, select the Insert symbol icon.
All recently used symbols in your document text will be available at the top of the symbols list for inserting again quickly.

5 Convert text

Text conversion feature is available from the START tab, Convert text.
Simply select the text to be converted and then the appropriate convert text option.

Convert text options.