The editor

The editor is where you write. This page shows what each part of the document page does. On a Mac, read ⌘ wherever this page says Ctrl, and ⌥ (Option) for Alt.

The parts of the page

• The title at the top of the page. A document with no title shows as Untitled in your lists.
• The toolbar under the header, with formatting, Cite and Insert.
• The page itself, where you type.
• The prompts panel on the left, on a wider screen: a Document prompt and your Section prompts. Hide it with Hide prompts panel. See Write your first document.
• Side panel, the button at the top right. It opens a panel beside the page with four tabs: Chat, Review, Library and Comments. Press Esc in the panel to close it.
• Share, next to it, shares the document for comments. It reads Shared while a link is active.
• Document options, the three dots at the top right (see below).
• The word count at the bottom right.

The toolbar

From left to right:

1. Undo and Redo.
2. Text style: Text, Heading 2, Heading 3, Heading 4 or Code block. Heading 2 starts a main section, such as Methods or Results; Heading 3 starts a subsection inside it.
3. Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough, Code, Superscript, Subscript, Highlight and Link.
4. Bulleted list, Numbered list and Quote.
5. Cite, to search for a paper and cite it at your cursor.
6. Insert, a menu with Table, Chart, Equation, Image and AI use statement.
7. The Autocomplete switch at the right end, which turns suggestions off and on.

Point at a button to see its name and its keyboard shortcut. In a narrow window, some buttons move into More formatting. The Autocomplete switch is the same setting as Autocomplete while you write in Settings > Writing.

Insert blocks with /

Type / in the page to open Insert a block, a list of everything you can add:

• Blocks: Text, Heading 2, Heading 3, Heading 4, Bullet list, Numbered list, Quote, Code block, Table, Table from a file, Chart, Image, Equation, Inline equation, Divider, Table of contents, List of tables, List of figures and AI use statement.
• Actions: Cite a paper.
• Refer to: your numbered tables, figures and equations, so you can point to one from the text.

Keep typing after the / to narrow the list, for example /tab for tables. Use the up and down arrows to choose, and Enter to insert. A table of contents, list of tables or list of figures updates by itself as you write.

Move and change blocks

Point at a paragraph, heading or list and its controls appear in the left margin:

• Rewrite this block with AI opens the rewrite presets for the block's text.

• Add a block below adds a line under the block with the / list open.

• The grip moves the block when you drag it. Click it for more options:

  • Move up and Move down.
  • Duplicate.
  • Turn into: Text, Heading 2, Heading 3, Heading 4, Bulleted list, Numbered list or Quote.
  • Delete.

In a narrow window the margin shows the grip alone, and its menu lists the other two. On a phone the margin controls are hidden.

From the keyboard, Ctrl+Alt+↑ and Ctrl+Alt+↓ move the block your cursor is in, and Ctrl+J rewrites the selection or the sentence your cursor is in.

The Document options menu

Press the three dots at the top right. The menu has three groups:

• Export: Export document… (Word or LaTeX), Export sources (.bib) and Export sources (.ris) on Plus, and Copy to clipboard.
• Insert: Insert AI use statement and Suggest headings…, which proposes sections your document does not have yet.
• This document: Find and replace, Version history…, Share for comments…, Document language… and Citation preferences….

At the bottom, Archive document moves the document to the archive, where it is read-only until you restore it.

Find and replace

1. Press Ctrl+F, or choose Find and replace in Document options.
2. Type in Find. The count beside the box shows which match you are on. Press Enter or Next for the next match, and Previous to go back.
3. Turn on Match case or Whole word to narrow the matches.
4. To replace, press Show replace, or press Ctrl+H (⌘+Shift+H on a Mac). Type in Replace with, then press Replace for one match or Replace all for every match.

After Replace all, a notice says how many matches were replaced, with an Undo button. Press Close to close the find bar.

Saving

Papero saves as you type: the top of the page shows Saving… and then Saved.

If you lose your connection, you see Reconnecting…. Keep writing: Papero keeps your changes and saves them when you are back.

If the same document is changed in another tab or window, Papero stops saving in this one rather than overwrite the other. Copy anything you wrote since, then press Reload to see the latest version. To go back to an earlier state of a document, use Version history…. See Version history.

For every key that works in the editor, see Keyboard shortcuts. For tables and images, see Tables, figures and images, and for charts and equations, Charts and equations.