The Toolbar

Select something on the canvas and a toolbar appears next to it, holding the quick actions for what you have selected. It is contextual: it shows up only when there is a selection, and its contents change to match. A small caption above it names the selection, for example "Selected Square".

One element selected

From left to right:

• More (⋯): opens the element's full menu, the same one a right-click opens, with its colours, borders, text styling and the rest. See Context Menus.
• Add Text (or Edit Text once the element has some), and Edit Points on a shape you can reshape point by point.
• On a mind map node, Add Child and Add Sibling.
• Duplicate.
• Bring to Front and Send to Back.
• Lock (or Unlock) and Delete.

Which buttons show depends on the element: an image has no text to add, and a locked element offers little beyond Unlock. To comment on an element, open More and choose Add Comment under Collaborate. On a view-only link, where there is no element menu, the toolbar holds just an Add Comment button instead, so visitors can still join a discussion.

Several elements selected

Drag a marquee or Shift-click to select several, and the toolbar switches to the actions that make sense across a group:

• More (⋯): the selection's menu, for styling everything at once.
• Filter Selection (only when the selection mixes kinds): narrows it by type, so you can marquee over a busy area and keep, say, just the arrows. See Multi-Select.
• Duplicate, with the arrows between the selected elements included.
• Export: export just these elements.
• Lock (or Unlock) and Delete.

The caption reads "Selected Elements" with a count.

The toolbar follows your selection so the controls are always close to what they affect, and disappears the moment you deselect, handing the canvas back. Beside a selected shape or arrow, the Quick Style panel offers the most-used colours and widths too.

In power user mode on a computer, More leaves the toolbar (right-click instead), and with Minimal Chrome on so do the caption and the bin (press Delete instead). Touch screens keep all three.