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How to Use Collapsible Notes and Paragraph Styles in macOS Sequoia

The Notes app in macOS Sequoia has been updated with some very useful new features: collapsible sections and new paragraph styles. Collapsible sections can come in handy as you’re writing or reviewing a note to reduce the amount of time it takes to find what you’re looking for. Meanwhile, the new paragraph styles offer more flexibility to your formatting while writing or editing a note. In this article, we’ll look at how to use each new feature. 

Collapsible sections (image courtesy of Apple)
Collapsible sections (image courtesy of Apple)

How to collapse sections and headings in Notes

To use collapsible sections, you must be using iCloud notes or notes stored on your Mac. If you are, launch the Notes app on your Mac.

° Open a note, then select the text for the heading.

° Click the “Aa” icon, then click Heading or Subheading.

° Add content to the section.

° Click the down arrow button to hide the content in the section or Click the right-point arrow to expand a section.

How to format text with new paragraph styles in Notes

You can change the paragraph for fast formatting of text.  You can also change the alignment, and customize the default title paragraph style for all new notes.

However, to use paragraph styles and specify the paragraph style that’s used when you create a new note, just as with collapsible sections, you must be using iCloud notes or notes stored on your Mac. Now launch the Notes app. open a note, and do any of the following:

  1. Apply a paragraph style to a paragraph: Click anywhere in the text you want to format, click “Aa”, then choose a style.
Choose paragraph style.
Choose paragraph style.
  1. Change the default title paragraph style: Choose Notes > Settings, click the New notes start with pop-up menu, then choose an option.
New notes start with….
New notes start with….
  1. Change text alignment: Click anywhere in the text you want to change, choose Format > Text, then choose an option.
Dennis Sellers
the authorDennis Sellers
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Dennis has over 40 years of journalism experience and has written hundreds of articles. For the past 20-plus years, he's been an online journalist, covering mainly Apple Inc. He's written for MacCentral, MacWorld, MacMinute, Macsimum News, Apple Daily Report, and is now contributing editor at Apple World Today.
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