Editors

Edit Mode

Edit the text itself: every header menu, tool, sidebar tab and context menu of Edit Mode.

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Text › Edit Mode: every menu, tool, sidebar tab and context menu of this mode, on one page. Use the panels on the right to jump between the regions.

7.1.26 Editors - 3D View - Header - Text - Edit mode - Text menu

Cut

Cuts the selection.

Entry	What it does
Copy	Copies the selection.
Paste	Pastes a copied selection.
Paste File	Opens the file browser where you can choose a text file to paste the text from. It needs to be UTF8.
To Uppercase	Sets the selected text to be uppercase letters.

To Lowercase

Sets the selected text to be uppercase letters.

Last Operator Set Case

Set Case has one Last Operator for all items.

Insert Unicode

Inserts a Unicode character. When you use the operator, a dialogue box will prompt you to enter a Unicode codepoint hex value to insert the character.

Special Characters

Special characters is a sub menu that contains some special text characters, like copyright, which you can insert into the text.

Copyright ©
Registered Trademark ™
Degree °
Multiplication ×
Circle ○
Superscript ¹
Superscript ²
Superscript ³
Guillemet Left «
Guillemet Right »»
Per Mile ‰
Euro €
Florin
Pound £
Yen ¥
German Eszett
Inverted Question Mark ¿
Inverted Exclamation Mark ¡

Move Cursor

Set the cursor at specific positions in the text.

Entry	What it does
Toggle Bold	Bold sets the selected letters to be displayed as bold letters.
Toggle Italic	Italic sets the selected letters to be displayed as italic letters.
Toggle Underline	Underline sets the selected letters to be displayed as underlined letters.
Toggle Small Caps	Toggle small caps sets the selected letters to be displayed as if they were upper case letters, but with lower case size.

Kerning

Kerning is the distance between letters. Increase, decrease and reset the kerning.

Entry	What it does
Decrease Kerning	Decreases the distance between the letters.
Increase Kerning	Increases the distance between the letters.
Reset Kerning	Resets the distance between the letters to the default values from the font.

Last Operator Change Spacing

Delta

Adjust the spacing. The range goes from -20 to 20.

Delete

Deletes the selected text.

Tool Shelf

Tools

Tool Shelf - Text - Edit Mode

The tool shelf does not have any specific tools in the tool shelf yet for the text object.

The tweak tool allows you to select text parts.

3D Cursor, Measure and Annotate tools

The 3D Cursor, Measure and annotate tools at the end of the list are explained in the chapter 7.1.1 Editors - 3D View - Tool Shelf - Object Mode. We won't cover this tools again here.