# Custom Fields paragraph text
**URL:** https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [January 28, 2018, 10:26am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028 "2018-01-28T10:26:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Hennie\_Groenewald](https://forum.manager.io/u/Hennie_Groenewald)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 10:26am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/1 "2018-01-28T10:26:29Z")
Hi
Can not edit the Custom Fields if paragraph text under settings
Running manager 18.1.29
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### Author:  [@sharpdrivetek](https://forum.manager.io/u/sharpdrivetek)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/2 "2018-01-28T10:50:36Z")
can you explain better? some screenshots can help.
if you are asking for the ability to set a default text for custom fields, you can set the same in _Form Defaults_ under Settings.
read the below topic
> [@\[18.1.11\] Added "Form Defaults" section and "Custom Theme" checkbox](https://forum.manager.io/t/18-1-11-added-form-defaults-section-and-custom-theme-checkbox/13914):
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> The latest version (18.1.11) introduces Form Defaults section and Custom Theme checkbox. Let me go through Form Defaults first. Form Defaults When you create new transaction, Manager will present you with empty form which you can start filling up. Certain fields used to have set default link which would allow you to set default starting value. For example, you were able to set default due date. [duedate] Or whether amounts are tax inclusive. [taxinclusive] This was fine but clicking clicki…
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### Author:  [@Hennie\_Groenewald](https://forum.manager.io/u/Hennie_Groenewald)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/3 "2018-01-28T12:06:03Z")
 on version 18.01.29
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### Author:  [@Hennie\_Groenewald](https://forum.manager.io/u/Hennie_Groenewald)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/4 "2018-01-28T12:06:41Z")
 on version 17.12.66
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### Author:  [@Hennie\_Groenewald](https://forum.manager.io/u/Hennie_Groenewald)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/5 "2018-01-28T12:07:09Z")
hope this is helping
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### Author:  [@Hennie\_Groenewald](https://forum.manager.io/u/Hennie_Groenewald)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/6 "2018-01-28T12:12:21Z")
I have reinstall version 17.12.66 to test
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### Author:  [@sharpdrivetek](https://forum.manager.io/u/sharpdrivetek)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/7 "2018-01-28T12:15:58Z")
like i said in my initial reply, the default text has been moved to _Form Defaults_ which you can find under Settings.
and please do not open your business files on older versions of Manager once they were used on newer versions. this may corrupt the business data file.
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### Author:  [@Hennie\_Groenewald](https://forum.manager.io/u/Hennie_Groenewald)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/8 "2018-01-28T13:00:46Z")
I know I can not I have 3 PC with all versions on to test stuff
I have found it that it is just a big change
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### Author:  [@Tut](https://forum.manager.io/u/Tut)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/9 "2018-01-28T15:08:04Z")
Yes, it can seem like a big change, @Hennie_Groenewald. But once you start working with it, it gives much more flexibility. If you had default text already defined, it is not lost. It has been converted automatically to the default form for that type of transaction. And instead of setting default text one custom field at a time, you can see all custom fields for a certain type of form and adjust them at once. While you are doing that, you can also set your most commonly used bank or cash accounts if you want, specific your normal tax codes, etc.
Anything set on the default form can be edited when creating new transactions, so you are not locking yourself in. And no previously existing transactions will be changed.
Basically, instead of a few default possibilities here and there throughout the program, almost anything can now be set as default, yet be limited to the type of forms where you want it to apply. Even themes can be set as default form by form.
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### Author:  [@Hennie\_Groenewald](https://forum.manager.io/u/Hennie_Groenewald)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/10 "2018-01-28T15:19:23Z")
Thanks
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### Author:  [@andrius](https://forum.manager.io/u/andrius)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/12 "2018-12-24T12:24:14Z")
How about the fix for paragraph text? It is not working, not showing when selecting paragraph text, so there is no way to edit the text and have it as a template everywhere.
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### Author:  [@itmoto](https://forum.manager.io/u/itmoto)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/13 "2018-12-24T12:35:54Z")
Did you read the responses given at the beginning of this post and searched the link that was provided?
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### Author:  [@andrius](https://forum.manager.io/u/andrius)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/14 "2018-12-27T09:40:04Z")
This does not answer my question. Why did paragraph stopped working? And why is a lot of crap being added to this simple minimalistic program and making everything brake?
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### Author:  [@Brucanna](https://forum.manager.io/u/Brucanna)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2018, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/16 "2018-12-27T12:08:20Z")
> [@andrius](#):
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> Why did paragraph stopped working?
It didn’t stop working, if you had read the responses above then you would have learnt that the capability is now under Settings \> Form Defaults
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### Author:  [@Ealfardan](https://forum.manager.io/u/Ealfardan)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/custom-fields-paragraph-text/14028/17 "2023-01-18T15:07:38Z")