Whiteboard Text Formatting
in progress
Michael Carrico
It seems odd that you can't format specific text within a text box. Simple ideas such as bolding text is not a feature. Making some text smaller or larger is not a feature. The whiteboard is missing so many customizable options.
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Zach
in progress
We have this partially completed! You now have the ability to use text formatting if you know the keyboard shortcuts (like ⌘+B for bold on Mac for example)
I'll complete this feature request once we add buttons into the toolbar as well.
But go ahead and try it out!
Guy Mannerings
Zach I noticed this if I paste formatted text in. 👍
One thing to note: Bullet points don't respond to standard keystroke use of Tab and Shift+Tab when using Sticky Notes.
Tab would usually do another indent level for bullets, and Shift+Tab would go back a level. But, instead, it creates a new Sticky Note.
Guy Mannerings
Zach Also, noticing it only works for a few formatting options (bold, italics, strikethrough, etc), but not others (highlight, headings, different font sizes per line, text colours, banners, etc).
Is the plan still to bring all/most of the formatting options we had in old Whiteboards?
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Laura Briscoe
I would like to choose my font size when I'm working with text on a whiteboard. The small isn't small enough.
Zach
planned
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Alex
Zach - thank you for picking this up. It is such a basic functionality. And I concur with others, the whiteboards are not really usable for larger brainstorms if you cannot jot down bullet points and structured text like in a document. (heading, text, bullet, sub-bullet)
Zach
Merged in a post:
Additional Text Formatting for Whiteboards 3.0
Mark Hinds
I've been trying to use the new Whiteboards but am struggling with the lack of formatting options for text. The ones I'm missing the most are the ability to use bullets and checkboxes in text boxes and sticky notes. Without these options, text lists turn into gobblygook.
It would also be nice to be able to use BOLD and Italics and different sizes of text within the boxes.
Also, I want to give a plug for allowing us to choose whether checkboxes use strikethrough or not. Reference https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/checkbox-without-strikethrough
Erin Seaberg
I am a newer ClickUp user (last 6 months) and just started using Whiteboards. I was trying to add bullet points and change text styles, and couldn't figure it out so I went on Youtube only to discover that all of those features used to exist but no longer do. This was an extremely frustrating realization. To create a new version of an element with less features doesn't make any sense. Please bring back the key functionalities from the old version!!
Guy Mannerings
Really need rich text format options on Whiteboards v3 - banners, bullets, highlighting, different font sizes per line, bolding, underline, headings, etc etc.
Also, larger fonts up to any size we want and more font options.
Whiteboards v3 is a
significant
step back in usefulness compared to v2 for this reason.Guy Mannerings
Desperately needed. Whiteboards 3.0 is unusable for me without Rich Text Formatting.
I was a heavy user of Sticky Notes that included:-
Banners.
Headings 1-3
Bullet points.
Horizontal break lines.
Highlighting.
Normal text.
To have all text inside Sticky Notes (and others) be the same is a HUGE backwards step.
Zach Could we please get an update on when Rich Text Formatting is coming?