ChemDraw User's Manual - CambridgeSoft

5. To close the text box, click outside the text boxor select another tool.NOTE: You can verify the chemical significance of a captionor atom label using the Check Structure command byselecting it with the Lasso or Marquee tool.By default, captions are considered to be chemicallysignificant if possible. For example, if you create alabel like CH 3 OH, you will be able to attach bondsto it (and it will be modified appropriately) eventhough you intended it to be a label, not a molecule.Moreover, it’s values are included in the AnalysisWindow, which could be confusing. If you try tolabel structures “A”, “B”, and “C”, the “B” and “C”labels will be marked with a red box because theyhave “incorrect valences”. To fix this, do thefollowing:1. Select the label with the Lasso or Marquee tool.2. Right-click or Control+click in the selection.3. Deselect the Interpret Chemicallycommand.Alternately, you can change the default byunchecking the “Interpret Chemically WhenPossible” option on the Captions tab of the DocumentSettings dialog box.Editing a CaptionTo open a caption for editing:1. Click the Text tool .2. Point at a caption and click to open the textbox.The caption text is highlighted.To change all of the highlighted text within an opentext box:• Type the new caption text over the highlightedtext.The highlighted text disappears as you type thenew caption.If not all the text is highlighted and you want toselect all of the caption text:• From the Edit menu, choose Select All.Changing the Caption WidthTo change the width of a caption:1. Select a caption using the Text tool.The Caption text box appears around thecaption. The right side of the text box containsa Resize handle.Resize handle2. Drag the Resize handle.The point at which the text wraps is adjusted asyou drag the Resize handle.To change part of the caption text:• Drag the insertion point over a part of thecaption.Adding Analysis Data to aCaptionYou can add any of the properties from The AnalysisWindow to a caption. If auto-update is on, thevalues will update as you modify your structure.ChemDraw 9 Drawing Captions and Atom Labels • 85Creating Captions