Format Toolbar

With the Format toolbar you can set styles for page, map, topics and relationships.

See the Styling for details on styling.


Change the shape, background and border of topics.
Change the layout of subtopics.

Add a boundary around a topic and its subtopics, with selectable border and fill colors.

Insert relationship arrows between topics, with a selection of styles and colors.

Apply an existing map style to your map.

Change the map fill, or background color, of your map.
Change the total map width and height, in pixels.

Change the background of task info.
Change the text style of task info.

Working With Boundaries

To put a boundary around a topic and all of its subtopics, use the drop-down menu from the toolbar, or the drop-down menu from the toolbar.
See Styling for more about boundary style.

Map Styles

By using one of the 20 predefined map styles, or your own custom style, you can change the appearance of existing and new maps. Select the styles in the toolbar. Map styles define the way each of the central, main, and sub topics appear by changing the background fill, shape, line style, and font (name, size, bold, italic, underline, color, and alignment), along with map fill, size, and line color.

Creating your own style

To create your own default style, create a new map as show below, with one central topic, one main topic, and one subtopic.

Choose the look of your style by changing map fill, the the font, shape, fill, and other properties of each of the three topics.

To change the line color for the map, select the central topic, and set the line color in the appearance section of the toolbar.


To save your style as the default style, use the Set as default option.
To apply the default style to your map, click the Reset to default option.