Some parts of Modeler support rich text, including the following areas:

Rich text provides these features:

Standard text formatting such as font, color, alignment and bullets.

A model object reference is a textual reference to a dictionary item or diagram. You can right-click model object references, and then perform standard operations on the referenced object, such as viewing its properties. You can double-click model object references to navigate to the object. If a referenced object is deleted from the model, model object references to that object become normal text formatted with strikethrough. Usage reports recognize references made through model object references.

You can add Windows shortcuts to rich text, so that external files can be opened from within Modeler.

Note that you cannot drag a Windows shortcut to rich text displayed in the Property Pages, but you can drag a Windows shortcut to that rich text when it is opened in a text window.

The rich text in diagram Notes, Text Diagrams, RTF properties and rich text Tag Definitions can act as a container to OLE objects, so that you can view and open OLE objects from within Modeler. You can embed files up to a total size of 1 gigabyte; however, storing large files in the model results in a larger model and a degradation in performance. Note that an embedded object may be double the size of that data file on disk, due to the data being converted to a format compatible with the rich text.

Within the Relationships browser, HTML Links can be dragged and dropped onto diagrams, items and properties that support rich text. When the HTML Link is double-clicked, the URL is opened.