Can WordBoard Type Bold Text, Links Or Formatting?

Yes. A WordBoard key can hold formatted text: bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, clickable links and bulleted lists.

Make a formatted key

1. On the Keys tab tap + and choose Custom Key, or open a key you already have.
2. Under Phrase, tap Formatted.
3. Type your text and use the toolbar to add bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, links and bullets. Variables work here too.
4. Tap Save.

Use it

Apple only lets keyboards type plain text, so a formatted key is copied for you to paste:

1. Tap the key in the WordBoard keyboard. You'll see "Formatted text copied, paste away!"
2. Touch and hold in the text field and tap Paste.

Formatted keys show a small Aa in the top corner of the key, so you can tell them apart from keys that type straight away. More about key icons.

Where the formatting shows

• Mail, Notes, Messages, Gmail, Outlook and most email apps keep the formatting.
• In Messages, links show as the text with the web address after it in brackets.
• WhatsApp and Messenger paste it as plain text.

Tips

• Want plain text just this once? Touch and hold the key in the keyboard and choose Type as Plain Text.
• To stop a key being formatted, switch its Phrase back to Plain Text. WordBoard checks with you first, because the styles are removed.
• A formatted key can have a photo too. Tapping it copies the text and the photo together.
• The Preview tab in the app shows formatted keys the way they'll look when pasted.