Formatting & Text Tools
Light-touch formatting and quick actions, right where your cursor is.
ChapterMuse keeps formatting deliberately simple — the marks fiction actually needs, and nothing that gets in the way. Use the toolbar or right-click any paragraph for bold, italic, and a proper em dash, plus colour and highlight for your own notes. The same menu handles rich-text copy and cut, clears working formatting, and exposes revision decisions while a named pass is active.
Paragraph right-click menu
✦Quick start
- 1Select some text, then press Ctrl/⌘ B for bold or Ctrl/⌘ I for italic.
- 2Right-click a paragraph for the full menu — including copy, cut, em dash, colour, highlight, and clear formatting.
- 3Select a name and choose Add to story world to create a character, place, faction, or item from it.
- 4Right-click and Save as snippet to stash a paragraph for reuse.
Formatting
- Bold and italic — from the toolbar or Ctrl/⌘ B and Ctrl/⌘ I
- A proper em dash (—) inserted at the cursor
- Theme-aware text colour and highlight swatches that stay readable in every writing palette
- Clear bold, italic, colour, and highlight in one action without stripping revision meaning
- Colour and highlight are just for you — they're cleared automatically on export
Quick Actions
- Add to story world — turn a selected name into a character, location, item, faction, or glossary term, and open its sheet
- Save as snippet — stash the paragraph in your snippets library
- Copy or cut a selection as rich text where the system clipboard supports it, with a plain-text fallback
- Copy chapter — take the whole chapter to your clipboard as formatted text
- Paste import — bring outside text in, split into paragraphs automatically
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"Add to story world" is the fastest way to build your cast — write naturally, and promote names to real characters and places as they appear on the page.