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The scratchpad is a simple text editor that you activate by clicking the Show Scratchpad button in the Design page toolbar.
Figure 1- Activating the scratchpad
If you write text into the scratchpad, or paste it in for example from another application, you can then drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste the text into text boxes, grids, etc. in the survey. The content of the scratchpad is stored locally in the web-browser, and any text you place in the scratchpad is persistent, meaning that if you log out and back in again (from the same browser/PC) the text is still there. Similarly, both the overlay’s size and position on the screen are remembered for subsequent logins, in addition to whether it should automatically appear. The entire questionnaire can be pasted into the Scratchpad.
Figure 2 - The scratchpad in use
If you copy or drag multiple lines of text from the scratchpad into a question's Answer list, each row of text selected in the scratchpad will become a separate option in the answer list. Additional rows will be created automatically in the list to accommodate the answers.
Note that if you close scratchpad then reopen it later, scratchpad will remember the focus point - the location of the cursor - within the text.
You can also click the button ringed above - to open the scratchpad in a new browser window. You can then for example toggle between the scratchpad and the survey windows, or if you are working in a multi-monitor system you can move the scratchpad to a different monitor and run it "full screen". Click the button again to reattach the scratchpad into Survey Designer.