The Right-Click Menu

Right-click a selection in a document — or press Ctrl+Space — to open the context menu. What it offers depends on what you have selected: prose, a math expression, an image, or a block.

Inside a math expression the menu also opens with Alt+Space. Escape closes it, and closing returns focus to the document so you can keep typing.

Filtering the actions

With the menu open, start typing. A search field appears and the list narrows to the rows that match. Matching looks at the text on each row plus a few synonyms, and it reaches inside submenus — typing square finds Square within the Exponent submenu without opening it. If nothing matches, the menu reads "No matching actions". Backspace brings the whole menu back.

Text

With prose selected, the menu includes:

• Text color — a color picker for the selected text.

• Hide Block / Show Block — collapse a block behind a toggle, or reveal a hidden one.

Link to variable

With prose selected in a document that defines math variables, the menu offers Link to variable. Its submenu previews each defined variable in its own color; pick one to tie the selected phrase to that variable. If the selection is already linked, the menu shows Remove variable link instead. See Writing and Editing Math for how linked phrases behave.

Math

With a math expression selected, the symbolic actions are grouped into submenus:

• Simplify opens a submenu with Simplify, Expand, Factor, and the other transformations. Choosing one replaces the selection with the result.

• Change Notation opens a submenu of other ways to write the same expression. Each entry is a live preview; choosing one swaps the selection for that notation.

Alongside Simplify and Change Notation, a math selection now groups its actions into submenus:

• Exponent → Powers and roots

• Hat → Accents for a single node, including Vector

• Bar → Decorators that span the selection — overline, underline, widehat, widetilde, overbrace, underbrace and the dot family

• Cancel → Decorators that mark the selection — cancel, bcancel, xcancel and boxed

• Brackets → For a function: bracket visibility (Auto, Enable Brackets, Disable Brackets) and the bracket styles — parentheses, square brackets, braces and angle brackets

• Labels → Index and Label, the corner positions (Left Index, Left Label), the label symbols (Prime, Double Prime, Triple Prime, Dagger), and the Move to actions

Changing the shape of an expression

Some actions restructure the selection rather than decorate it.

• Detach Argument → Pulls a variable's parameters out into a plain group beside it, so ƒ(x) becomes ƒ*x

• Merge as Argument → Folds a following group into the variable, so x⋅(y+z) becomes x*(y+z)

• Move Down → Lifts the contents of an exponent out in front of it, so x^(y+z) with y+z selected becomes x*y+z

• Move to Exponent / Index / Label → Moves the selection into that position

Color

Selecting a single variable or constant offers a Color row. It opens the same palette as the right sidebar, and the color applies to every occurrence of that variable or constant in the document.

Inserting

With one or more expressions selected, Make a Graph appends a graph of them — the same block the graph preview in the right sidebar inserts.

Right-clicking empty space with nothing selected offers Insert Math, which drops an empty expression where you clicked with the cursor inside it.

Ask AI

Ask AI sits at the bottom of the menu. It opens a prompt box next to the selection with a few suggested questions and edits, or type your own. "Make this shorter" rewrites the selected lines in place; "what does this mean?" is answered in chat and leaves the document untouched. See AI Helper.

Actions that aren't available

Clipboard actions are always listed and greyed out when they don't apply to the current selection. Arrowing through the menu skips disabled rows and Enter ignores them, so you can't land on an action that does nothing.

Some actions are hidden rather than disabled. The convert-to-variable actions don't appear in a document title or a heading, and no suggestions appear inside a locked block — see Teams and Collaboration for locking.

Read-only and locked documents

The Corca menu only opens in documents you can edit. In a document you can only view, or one that's locked, right-clicking opens your browser's own menu instead. You can still use Copy there, and pasting into a document you can edit keeps the content intact. Right-clicking a math expression in a read-only document doesn't open a menu.