What It Does

With the Text Tool, you can easily jot down notes in text boxes that you can move around. If you're looking to do some full-page typing, check out Typing Mode.

How to Use It

With the tool selected, you can do any of the following:

Create a text box

• Tap anywhere on the page and type or paste from the clipboard.

  <aside> ℹ️ If you create or paste a large amount of text, it won’t go past page boundaries and is hidden until moved into full view. To avoid this, try to copy and paste text in smaller chunks, or resize the entire text box to make it fit the page.

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Move a text box

• Tap on the text box, then drag the middle-top Move handle.

Cut / Copy / Delete a text box

• Tap on the text box and choose Cut / Copy / Delete. Alternatively*,* you can delete a text box by editing it and then deleting all its text.

<aside> 💡 You can also move, cut, copy, delete, as well as scale or rotate a text box with the Lasso Tool.

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Paste text

If you’ve copied text, whether from within Goodnotes or an external app, like a web browser, there are two ways to paste the text onto a Goodnotes page as a new text box. Just long-press on the page and choose a paste option:

• To paste the text in the source formatting, choose Paste.
• To paste the text in Goodnotes default formatting, choose Paste and Match Style.

Edit a text box

Do any of the following: