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Blocky’s Text category consists of five editing blocks:
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Paragraphs
Headings
Quotes
Lists
Tables
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In the sections below we explore the functionality of each Text block type:
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The paragraph Paragraph block is a text-only block that journalists use for adding most of the general content to their articles, videos, or galleries. Several basic settings are available when using the paragraph block:
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Headings are like an outline of your content. They help structure and break text logically into smaller sections. Headings are a pithy way to describe what succeeding sections are about, as well as visual points of reference to help readers scan content. There are different heading levels to communicate the importance of different points journalists want to make. Content creators can use HTML heading tags Headings block settings:
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Quotes are text-only blocks used to for highlighting a quote from someone usually important to the story or a short interesting sentence to grab the reader’s attention. If Bear in mind that each media has a style guide that sets rules of quoting. However, a general rule of thumb is, if the quote is about from a person or publication, include the author’s name and title. However, if the content is entirely about the person being quoted, no credit is needed. Quotes block settings:
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Lists is a text-only block allowing journalists to present complex text in a scannable way by adding Bulleted bulleted and/or Numbered numberedlists to their content. Bulleted lists are normally used to present related things that don’t need to appear in a particular order. Numbered lists are most often used to present sequential items like procedures, or prioritized items such as “Top 10” lists. Lists block settings:
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The Tables block is used to display numbers, comparisons or organize your content and data in tabular format. Once you add a Table block, you can define table headers of columns and rows, or merge table cells. Column settings:
Row settings:
Merge cells settings:
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See also Content blocks.