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Use sections to organise your work

Learn how to add use sections to create structure in your whiteboard.

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Written by Jonno Katahanas
Updated over a week ago

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Use sections to organize your board. With sections, you can group and move related ideas, or guide people through workshops with multiple activities, each in their own section.

Create a section from the toolbar

  1. Select the Section icon in the toolbar.

  2. A section will appear on hover. Click and drag the section to the location of the board where you’d like the section to go.


Add elements to a section

Select and move an element into a section using your mouse or keyboard arrows. You can add any whiteboard element to a section, except for another section.

Once you have moved elements inside the section, they’ll stay with the section when you move it around your whiteboard.

You can also click and drag to select multiple objects and and them to a section.

Edit a section title

To edit a section title:

  1. Create or select a section on the board.

  2. Change the name from untitled to a new name and press Return / Enter.

You can also double-click the section’s name to edit.

To remove the title:

  1. Double-click title

  2. Delete text

  3. Press Return / Enter

Change the appearance of a section

You can change the size and color of a section.

To resize a section:

  1. Select the section.

  2. Click and drag the resize handles of the section.

To change the color of a section:

  1. Select the section.

  2. Click on the color picker icon in the floating toolbar.

  3. Choose a new color.

Delete a section

To delete a section:

  1. Select the section

  2. Press Delete / Backspace

Deleting a section also deletes its contents. To delete a section without deleting its contents, select everything in the section and drag it to another place on the whiteboard.

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