Floating Toolbar

Floating Toolbar is a shortcut toolbar that appears near selected content on the canvas, helping you add, edit, and format your mind map without moving away from where you are working.

Show Floating Toolbar for a Topic

When you select a topic, Floating Toolbar can appear near it depending on your settings.

To change when Floating Toolbar appears for topics:

1️⃣ Open Settings.

2️⃣ Go to Editor.

3️⃣ Find When topic is selected.

4️⃣ Choose one of the following options:

Floating Toolbar hides automatically when you start editing text, click an empty area of the map or zoom the map, or select another object.

Screenshot of Xmind Settings with the Editor section open. The When topic is selected setting is visible with Always, Click Again, and Never options.

Use Floating Toolbar with a Topic

Select a topic to use quick actions such as:

Screenshot of a selected topic in Xmind with Floating Toolbar visible. The toolbar shows Grow Ideas, Relationship, Weblink, Image, Note, To-Do, and Style buttons.

Use Floating Toolbar with Multiple topic

When you select multiple topics, you can use the quick actions on the floating toolbar to:

Screenshot of multiple selected topics in Xmind with Floating Toolbar visible. The toolbar shows To-Do and Style buttons.

Format Selected Text

When you edit a topic and select text, a text formatting toolbar appears.

You can use it to change:

Screenshot of a topic in text editing mode with part of the text selected. A text formatting toolbar appears above the selected text with font style, font size, bold, italic, strikethrough, underline, and color options.