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# Text

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## What is a Text page?

**Text pages accommodate primarily written content.** Use the Text page to insert text and use the formatting and styling tools as needed.

## Quick steps: how to create & edit a Text page

1. **Open Authoring.** Create or open a [Learning Story](/authoring-docs/authoring/content-types/learning-story.md), [Assessment](/authoring-docs/authoring/content-types/assessment.md) or [Survey](/authoring-docs/authoring/content-types/survey.md) [content type](/authoring-docs/authoring/content-types.md).
2. **Add a Story, Assessment or Survey.** Open the Editor.
3. **Add or open a Text page.** Select the + icon and choose Text from the Add Page options.&#x20;
4. **Update the Text page to edit.** Select the page to view the [Page Options](/authoring-docs/content-pages/story-and-page-settings.md#what-are-the-page-options), and select Update to add and edit text.
5. **Format text layout and style.** Use the top menu for [formatting](#text-formatting-tools), and the right side menu for layout and style [options](#text-options-and-settings).

## Text formatting tools

**Format**\
Choose the text block style: Paragraph, Large Body, Heading 1,  Heading 2,  Heading 3,  Heading 4, Block Quote, Preformatted.&#x20;

**Text styling**\
Bold, Italic, Underline, Text Colour

**Align**\
Align text to the left, centre, or right.

**List**\
Bullets or Numbered.

**Clear formatting**\
Select this option to clear all formatting.

**Insert link** \
Select this option to add a link to selected text.

**More...** \
Insert an image/file from Cloudfile.

## Text layout and style options&#x20;

**Vertical Alignment**\
Choose how you would like your text to be aligned on the page: top, middle (default), or bottom.

**Horizontal Alignment**\
Choose how you would like your text to be aligned on the page: left, middle (default), or right.

**Column Layout**\
Create text 1 to 3 columns.

**Constraint Width**\
Specify the maximum width you want your content to stretch to.

**Page Colour**\
Select an alternative background colour to override the theme default.

**Page Gradient**\
Specify a second background colour to make a gradient effect.

**Opacity**\
Set the colour opacity from 100 - 0%.

**List Style**\
Specify how you want your bullet lists to look: normal (bullet pints), tick, or arrow.

## Text page Tips and FAQs

### Background colours

**When editing a page background colour, a custom colour palette is presented.** These colours work well on retina screens and are designed to look good across devices.&#x20;

### Recommended Colours

**Colours are suggested to suit the content.** For pages hat contain an image, Recommended Colours colours will be suggested to harmonise with the image.

### Text colour not updating

**If the text or font colour is not changing, this could be due to a conflict of applied formatting.** For example, your text is made bold and will not adopt a selected colour. To correct this, first select the text colour, and then make the text bold. Alternatively, remove all formatting and try again.

### Custom colours colours in Dark Mode

**If you choose custom colours for your font or text, those colours will also be used in Dark Mode.** Only default font colours will auto-adjust in Dark Mode.

### Link colours

**By default, hyperlink colours are set according to the theme's primary colour.** When using a custom colour with links, ensure to highlight the white space before or after the hyperlink text to ensure the colour is applied to the A tag.


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