The Elsa toolbar

The Elsa toolbar is where you can complete many tasks in Elsa.

The toolbar features two tabs: the Home tab and the Insert tab. On the Home tab, you will see options to complete actions such as formatting text, track changes, import a Word file, and link any unlinked citations while on the Insert tab you’ll see options to add chapter assets such as figures, tables, boxes, equations and callouts and to add references.

If you do not see all toolbar options shown below, try zooming out with your browser.

Home Tab

• Paragraph text: text created in paragraph style is regular body text. Note that Elsa has only one universal font size and style. If you wish to have a specific font for your project contact an Elsevier staff member. If you need a larger text, we recommend zooming in via your browser.
• Bullets and Numbering
• Numbered and Un-numbered headings
• Text formatting: bold, italicize, underline
• Super and Subscript
• Yellow Highlighter
• Special characters: note additional characters specifically for chemistry equations can be found on the Insert tab under the equation-builder
• Content tagging: highlight text to add a tag to your content
• Track changes
• Add comment: first highlight the text to which you would like to add a comment and then click this icon
• Find & Replace
• Link Citations
• Word Import

Insert Tab

• Box: Click the Box icon to create a box or click the carrot to create a key point, pearl, or un-numbered box
• Equation: Click Equation to create a regular in-line equation, click the carrot icon to create a standalone equation, which is numbered. Note that it is not currently possible to callout a standalone equation. The callout must be written in manually
• Table: Build a table with the table-builder. Rows and columns can be added after creating the initial 10x10 table if needed.
• Figure: Insert and upload figures via the figure icon
• Permission: first highlight the chapter asset (figure, table, box, etc.) and then click permission to enter permission information
• Callout: create an in-text citation for a chapter asset automatically with the callout icon
• Quotes
• Signature
• Footnote
• Link
• Code block
• Inline code
• E-only: mark content as e-only
• Chapter e-only: mark the entire chapter for e-only
• Further Reading List
• References