Notes (Free Text) on One-line
Notes are used to annotate your one-line with additional text information. They are very flexible in their font, size, style, border, and colors. Notes can optionally include leaders (lines) that point to specific locations on the one-line.
Adding a Note
To add a note to your one-line diagram, click 
Note in the Equipment Palette toolbox or Insert tab. The selection pointer appears. Hold the left mouse button while dragging to create a note outline box on the one-line. You can adjust the size and shape later, if needed.
You can type a note of up to 325 characters inside the note outline. The program automatically wraps to the next line when needed, but you can also press ENTER to start a new line. When you click outside the note, the outline disappears and your note is saved.
Editing the Contents of a Note
To edit the text in a note, first select the note by clicking somewhere inside the note text. You will see the outline box, but not the flashing insertion pointer. Click again near where you want to change the text, and you will see the flashing insertion pointer like you had when the note was first created. You can also right-click on a note and select Edit.
Make your changes using the arrow and HOME, END, and DELETE keys. To edit the note, use CTRL+X for cut, CTRL+C for copy, and CTRL+V for paste. You can also right-click and use the menu options.
Dragging and Resizing a Note
Hold, slide and release the left mouse button to drag a note to another location.
To resize a note, click anywhere in the note text. You can drag the eight handles (small squares at the box corners and sides) to change the size and shape of the note's outline box. The words in your note are automatically reformatted to fill the new space. If you make the outline box too small you will not be able to see all of the note.
Please see Text Size and TrueType for an important discussion of how TrueType affects the right‑hand side of text.
Deleting a Note
To delete a note, select it by either clicking on it once or by dragging a rectangle around it. On the Home tab, click 
Delete. You can also press the DELETE key or right-click on the note and click Delete.
If you clicked on the note twice and have the flashing insertion pointer, the DELETE key erases the character to the right of the pointer. If your intent is to delete the entire note, click outside the outline box, then click on the note just once to select it. You can now delete the note as described above.
Adding a Note with a Leader
To add a note which specifically points to something on your one‑line, click 
Note with Leader from the Equipment Palette or Insert tab. Hold the left mouse button to set the leader's pointing arrow at the target location, and drag to the location where you want the note outline box. You can drag and resize the note's outline box later as described in Dragging and Resizing a Note.
When this type of note is selected, you will see an additional handle at the tip of the leader's pointing arrow. You can drag this handle to change the location of the pointer.
Changing Note Properties
Note properties are the various visual properties that apply to a note. For example, the font, size, and color are some of the properties you can set. A note's properties apply to all of the characters in that note.
Double‑click on the edge of a note to bring up the Note Properties dialog box. You can also right-click while in the note, and select Note Format.
- If you format a note with multiple notes selected, the changes you make are applied to all of the selected notes. Any properties that are the same among all of the selected notes will be filled into the appropriate dialog box field as defaults. Those properties that are different will show a blank field. If you leave such dialog fields alone, those properties will be left unchanged in the selected notes. If you change any of the blank fields, those properties will be applied to all of the selected notes.
- If you format a note when there are no notes selected, you are setting the default properties for notes that are not yet created. (Notice the dialog box is now titled Default Note Properties.) These default settings are saved on the computer.
For information on specific settings, see Note Properties.
Selecting Many Notes at Once
To select many notes in one operation, click Find-Select > Query. You can optionally search for notes that contain specific text, and you can restrict the region of the one‑line to view. See Querying to Select for more information.
More Information
| Making One-line Diagrams | |
| Note Properties | |
| Text Size and TrueType |
