Screen settings
The longer you stare at a screen, the more every toolbar, mark color, font size, and bit of motion starts to bother you. Screen settings let you clear what you don't need off the writing screen and fit page width, colors, and font size to your eyes.
Hiding the toolbar
- Turn on Hide toolbar in the editor toolbar's ⋯. The editing tools above the editor and View settings and the word count below it are hidden.
- When you need the toolbar, move the mouse to the top edge of the page. The toolbar reappears.
- To stop hiding it, turn off the same switch on the toolbar that reappears.
Choosing a layout
Press View settings below the editor and a menu opens. Choose how the text is laid out in its Layout group at the bottom. The top of the same menu has the Continuous view and Typewriter mode switches.
- Default: you set the page width, line spacing, and first-line indent.
- Letter: Letter width, double spacing, and a first-line indent, like a manuscript you'd submit.
- E-book: e-reader width with justified text, to preview how it reads as an e-book.
- Mobile: phone width, to preview how a web serial reads on a phone.
Choosing under Layout in Settings > Editor changes both panes in split view together. The values for Default are set just below, in Default layout: Page width, Line spacing, and First-line indent.
A draft's result card in chat has its own button for previewing that draft at phone width. It changes only the card's preview; the editor's layout stays as it is.
Toning down mark colors
Turn on Muted colors for proofreading and revision marks in Settings > Editor. Proofreading and Revision marks show in a quiet gray instead of their usual color.
Setting the font size
Under Font size in Settings > Display, choose Small, Medium, Large, or Larger. The font size changes across the whole screen.
Reducing motion
Turn on Reduced motion in Settings > Display. Folding, the sidebar, panes, menus, and sheets change at once without motion, the loading star holds still, and graphs open already settled.
- Hide toolbar in Settings > Editor is the same switch as the one in the toolbar's ⋯. Touch screens don't offer it.
- A phone has no View settings button, and Layout in Settings is locked.
- In Split view, each pane keeps its own layout.
- If reduced motion is already on in your device settings, you don't need to turn on Reduced motion.
- Continuous view, which runs the manuscript together; Typewriter mode, which keeps the line you're writing in the middle; and Split view, which opens two panes side by side, each have their own page.