Use Markdown to Provide Text Formatter Control

Markdown is a simple symbolic coding system that is used to format text and is easy to use. Some Markdown examples:

• **Bold Text** <-- Makes the text within the double asterisks bold i.e **Format Magic is amazing**.
• *Italic Text* <-- Makes the text within the single asterisks italic.
• # Heading One, ## Heading Two, ### Heading Three <-- The heading text type is determined by the number of # symbols preceding the text.

Format Magic currently provides experimental support for markdown. You can apply markdown to some words or the entire block of text you want formatted. Formatting options are now available via right click and keyboard shortcuts. You can read more about how to use markdown here

Use trigger symbol !!!*!!! to Provide Text Formatter Control

The AI text formatter has been trained to recognise commands related to formatting that precede this combination of characters !!!*!!!

Bold Text

The line of text/paragraph directly under this command will be formatted in bold.

Highlight Blocks

The text/paragraph below this command will be formatted as a special content block. You can also stipulate 'highlight block' in place of 'special content block'. Note: That 'highlight block' and 'special content block' are key terms associated with each template so they must be referred to directly as such. Also note that this highlight option only applies to document templates and not resume templates.

Page Break Control

Adds a page break and starts any following text on a new page.

Cover Page and Table of Contents

Click the 'Insert Cover Page and Generate Table of Contents' selection box.
This will automatically select 'Add Page Numbers' selection boxes as they are required for the TOC. The Table of Contents will be created from all H1 and H2 heading tags found in the output.

The following text will be added to the top of the text box before your pasted text:

Note that the only the table of contents placeholder will be output to the editing window. The table of contents itself will not be generated until the PDF is generated. If you do not want a table of contents created then you can delete the table of contents insertion command. If the Table of Contents is empty when created, check to see if you have any H1 or H2 headings. It will be empty if there are no headings to create it from.

Change Page Background Color and Color Schemes

You can add commands like this at the top of the text box, useful for if you like a template but need minor color changes to suit your style or for printing. You can also specify a particular color such as #ccffff (This will make the page a light blue) You can use this color picker to find the exact colors you need.

You can also try commands like this:

This command is telling the AI to make heading one green, heading two pink and heading three blue. This will usually be interpreted as a color scheme change and can give some interesting and useful results.

Change the Page Orientation

This can be useful for when you have larger tables that won't fit on a portrait sized page. Note that this can only be applied to the entire document and not to individual document sections.