--- title: Bubble Menu description: Quick formatting toolbar when selecting text. --- The bubble menu is your quick-access formatting toolbar that appears when you select text. It puts the most common formatting options right at your fingertips. ### How to Use the Bubble Menu 1. **Select any text** in your note by clicking and dragging 2. The bubble menu automatically appears above your selection 3. Click any button to apply formatting 4. The menu disappears when you click elsewhere ### Available Formatting Options The bubble menu includes these formatting tools: - All Basic formatting tools - **Highlight** - Apply background highlighting - This is a dropdown that allows you to set a color for the highlight. Clicking on the same color on a highlighted text, de-highlights it. - **Add to Chat** - Adds the selected text to the Writing Assistant as context. - **Create linked note from selection** - Creates a note with the text selected (if it doesn’t contain invalid characters) and auto links it. ### When the Bubble Menu Won't Appear The bubble menu only appears when you select text in an editable note. It doesn't appear when: - The note is locked or otherwise read-only - The inline Writing Assistant is already open for the selection - You've selected an image, video, link preview, code block, horizontal divider, or math block - The selection is part of a regular link, doclink, or tag - You've selected an entire table cell, row, or column using the table controls The menu can still appear when you select text inside a table cell, but it only shows inline formatting options. Headings, links, block formatting, lists, Writing Assistant actions, and **Create linked note from selection** are hidden. Inside a bullet, numbered, or task list, the heading, callout, code block, and quote options are hidden because those block types can't be applied to an individual list item.