Rich text formatting

The main entry area for a note can include "rich text": text in different colours, sizes, fonts and styles.

To see formatting options, right-click in the editing area:


Using this popup menu, you can set

• Font options (typeface, text size, text colour, bold, italic, underline and strikeout), and
• Paragraph options (alignment, indentation, bullets).
  

Some of the common formatting options have shortcut keys:

• Ctrl+B for bold text
• Ctrl+I for italic text
• Ctrl+U for underlined text
• Ctrl+K for strikeout text.
  

Links

The text of a note can also include links, to Web pages (URLs) and to other documents in Groove.

To include a Web address, simply type or paste the URL; anything beginning with http://... will automatically be treated as a Web link.

To link to another document in Groove:

• Select the document you want to link to.
• Press the "copy as link" toolbar icon, or right-click and select "Copy as Link" (or Ctrl+L, usually)
• Edit your note and paste the link (with Ctrl+V).
  

The link will appear in your note as underlined text (usually with the title of whatever you copied).

If you want to change the text of the link (without affecting the link), position your cursor inside the blue underlined text and overtype.

The "copy as link" options may vary depending on the tool you're linking to. For example,

• The discussion tool has both a toolbar icon and the right-click "copy as link" option; also "Edit - Copy Entry As Link" on the main menu.
• The PinBoard itself has the toolbar icon, so you can make links between notes in a single pinboard, or between different pinboard tools.
• The Files tool has a "copy as link" option when you right-click a file or folder, and "Edit - Copy As Link" on the main menu.
• The Pictures tool has a toolbar icon, and "Edit - Copy Picture as Link" on the main menu.
• Tool tabs have a "copy as link" option on the right-click menu.