The canvas
The canvas is the document itself, laid out by the engine that writes the PDF. Click into text and type; what follows moves, onto the next page if it has to.
Typing and selecting
- One click on text puts the caret there; type. A double-click selects a word.
- One click in a table cell types into the cell. Tab goes to the next cell, and past the last one adds a row; Shift Tab goes back.
- A click on a picture, a chart or a box selects it, and its settings show in Properties.
- Esc steps out one level at a time: from typing to the block, from a selected row or column to the table, then to the box that holds it, and at the top clears the selection.
- ↑ and ↓ select the previous or next block in the document; Enter starts typing in a selected text block, or selects the first block inside a box.
Adding a block
Click a block in Blocks on the left: it goes into the selected box, or after the selected block. Between two blocks a + appears on hover, for the blocks used most. The command palette (Ctrl K)finds any block or command by name.
The block menu
Right-click a block (long-press on a touch screen) for its menu:
- Ask AI… (Ctrl J), to change the block by asking for it.
- Turn into: Paragraph, Heading 1 to 6, Caption or Formula.
- Duplicate, Copy, Cut, Paste inside, Paste after, Paste before, Delete.
- Group (Ctrl G) puts the selected blocks into a box; Move moves a block up, down, into or out of a box.
- Add a block after…; and in a table, Row and Column: add one above, below or on either side, duplicate it or delete it.
Zooming and moving around
- The wheel or the trackpad scrolls the pages; Shift and the wheel scrolls sideways.
- Ctrl (⌘ on a Mac) and the wheel zooms; so do Ctrl + and Ctrl -.
- Ctrl 0 shows the page at its actual size, 100%. The zoom menu in the toolbar also fits the page width to the window.
Visual and Code
The Visual and Code switch in the toolbar (Ctrl `) shows the document’s HTML and CSS beside its pages. See The Code view.