How to Use Blockquotes

Can use presets

Blockquotes are perfect for quoted text, poetry, letters, and highlighted passages in your book.

How to Create a Blockquote

1. Select the text you want to format as a blockquote
2. Click the blockquote icon in your editor toolbar
3. View your formatted blockquote instantly

Customizing Your Blockquote

When you select a blockquote, the inline style panel appears on the left side of the editor. This panel has two tabs that give you full control over your blockquote’s appearance: Text and Spacing.

Text

• Font — Choose from available typefaces
• Size — Set the font size of your blockquote text
• Line Spacing — Control the space between lines of text
• Alignment — Left, Center, Right, or Justified

Spacing

• Paragraph Spacing — Control the space between paragraphs within your blockquote

What Counts as a Paragraph

Paragraphs are created with a full return (Enter key). If you hold Shift and press Return, you create a line break instead. You can identify line breaks by the small sideways L symbol that appears to the right. Line breaks do not count as paragraph separations. Make sure you use a clear Enter to separate paragraphs if you want paragraph spacing to apply.

• Paragraph Indentation — Indent the first line of each paragraph within your blockquote
• Outer Spacing — Left, Right, Top, and Bottom space around the entire blockquote

Using Presets

You can save and reuse blockquote styles with presets. This makes it easy to apply consistent formatting across all blockquotes in your book.

Finding Blockquotes

Use the Elements tab in the section sidebar to find all blockquotes in your book and jump directly to any of them.