User guide

Click a symbol to highlight the atom and activate the Text tool. Move the mouse across the table to highlight each

atom.

To add an atom. Select the desired element in the periodic table and click an empty space in the document. The

atom appears in its chemically neutral form. For example, carbon appears as CH

and hydrogen appears as H

To label an atom. Click an existing unlabeled atom.

To change the oxidation state. Using the symbol for the atom, click the atom in the document window.

To change to a different atom. Select the new atom in the periodic table and click the atom in the drawing you want

to change.

To edit a label. You can edit an atom label using the Text tool, by highlighting the text and clicking a symbol in the

periodic table. The highlighted text is replaced.

Repeating atom labels

You can repeat an atom label using the text, bond, or ring tools.

1. Click the Text tool.

2. Label a single atom.

3. Do one of the following:

Using the Text tool, double-click another atom.

Using a bond, ring, or acyclic chain tool, triple-click another atom.

Deleting labels

To delete an atom label, do one of the following:

Select the Eraser tool and click the atom label.

With a selection, bond, or ring tool selected, point to the atom label and press the spacebar, Backspace, or Delete

key. Note that if an atom is labeled, pressing the spacebar, Backspace, or Delete key will delete the label, but not

the atom. If you want to delete the atom also, press Delete a second time for the unlabeled atom.

Captions

You can add captions to your structures using the Text tool. For example, to add a caption ‘Phenol’ to a phenol struc-

ture:

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