Available Formatting in Comments
TL;DR
All users can format comments using the Formatting button that appears below the comment field. Apply bold, italics, strikethrough, code, links, and lists via the menu or keyboard shortcuts. To quote text, highlight it and click the quotation marks icon to insert it into a comment.
| Availability: Legacy Free, Legacy Professional, Legacy Business, Legacy Enterprise; Unavailability: ; |
| Availability: Free, Team, Business, Pinnacle, Apex. ; Unavailability: ; |
All users can format their comments.
When you start typing your comment, a Formatting button appears under the comment field with all available formatting options.
Formatting options will appear over the text that you highlight.
To apply formatting to the text, select it, and then click one or more of the formatting options from the menu. To clear formatting, select the text and click the applied formatting option(s) again.
| Formatting Option | What It Does | Keyboard Shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Bolds text | Ctrl+B (⌘+B) | |
| Italicizes text | Ctrl+I (⌘+I) | |
| Adds a strikethrough to text | Shift+Ctrl+X (⇧+⌘+X) | |
| Formats one line of text as code | Shift+Ctrl+C (⇧+⌘+C) | |
| Displays preformatted text using a fixed-width font, preserving all spaces and line breaks | Shift+Alt+Ctrl+C (⇧+⌘+⌥+C) | |
| Opens a window for adding a link | Shift+Ctrl+K (Shift+⌘+K) | |
| Turns selected text into a bulleted list | Shift+Ctrl+8 (⇧+⌘+8) | |
| Turns selected text into a numbered list | Shift+Ctrl+7 (⇧+⌘+7) |
Note
In Wrike tasks, folders, projects and Custom Item Types comments section, only the following formatting is recognized as hyperlinks:
https://
http://
mailto://
ftp://
gopher://
smb://
- When in the Item View, highlight the text you'd like to quote (the text can be from another comment or from the description field) 1.
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Click the quotation marks icon
that appears to the left of the selected text 2.
- The selected text is automatically inserted into a new comment. If you're already typing a comment, the quote is added to the end of it 3.
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Finish typing your comment and click Send or use your preferred keyboard shortcut to post your comment 4.
Notice
If you're quoting text from another comment, then above it you'll see the name of the user who posted the comment along with the date and time it was posted.