How do I add a link or hyperlink to an entry?

With a Penzu Pro account, you can change any text to a hyperlink or clickable URL easily. Just follow the steps below:

1. Select the text you want to turn into a link in the body of your entry:

2. Click on the “Link” icon on the Format toolbar:

3. Enter the desired URL in the popup associated with the link and click insert:

4. The selected text from step one will now be linked to the URL of your choosing:

How do I insert the date/time into the body of an entry?

You can easily insert your computer’s date/time right into your entry by clicking on the “clock” icon on the Format toolbar. Once clicked, the date will be inserted wherever the cursor is on the page.

How does spell check work?

Spellcheck can be found in the Formatting toolbar.

To spell check an entry, simply click the spell check icon and incorrectly spelled words will appear highlighted in light red. Then RIGHT CLICK on those highlighted words and suggestions for the correct spelling will appear. Select the desired spelling or ignore the word if you want the spelling to remain. Click on the screen-shot below for more detail:

My text is not aligning with the lines on the pad…

If you are a Penzu Pro user, you may experience this problem.

This can happen when you either paste content from another site into an entry, or if you are altering the size and font of the text on the pad. To make the text align with the ruled lines on the pad, select the text in question and click the right-most button on the formatting toolbar (the button looks like a T with an x) to remove all formatting:

The text will be stripped of it’s style but will now align properly with the pad.

How do I format my entry text?

With different fonts, sizes, colors and alignments, Penzu Pro really lets you express yourself! To format text in an entry, follow these simple steps:

1. To access the rich text formatting bar, click the “Format” button on the Pad toolbar.

2. Formatting allows you to change normal text to rich text. You can make the type bold, italic, underlined, larger, smaller, change the font, the colour, alignment, indentation, add strikethrough, highlight text, make a bulleted list, numbered list, and add hyper-links. And you can spell-check an entry!

To find out what something does, just rollover it with your mouse.

Fonts can be found under the Font list:

Keyboard Shortcuts for Formatting Entries with Penzu Pro

You can use keyboard shortcuts to format your entries with Penzu Pro so that you don’t have to keep revisiting the formatting toolbar. A list of basic formatting shortcuts is below and we will continue to add to this list:

Ctrl+S = Save (Also Alt+S saves as well with Google Chrome)

Ctrl+A = Select All
Ctrl+B = Bold
Ctrl+U = Underline
Ctrl+I = Italicize
Ctrl+C = Copy
Ctrl+V = Paste
Ctrl+Y = Redo
Ctrl+Z = Undo

*For mac users, substitute the command key (or “⌘”) for “Ctrl”