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title: Distributed Plain Text Block
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description: Give Marketing Cloud Engagement business users more flexibility when personalizing messages with the ability to enter plain text in a message. Use this text block to let users contextualize images and marketing content, create their own messages and personal notes, and more.
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  - Marketing
  - Cross Cloud
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# Distributed Plain Text Block

Give Marketing Cloud Engagement business users more flexibility when personalizing messages with the ability to enter plain text in a message. Use this text block to let users contextualize images and marketing content, create their own messages and personal notes, and more.

- **[Add a Distributed Marketing Text Block](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_dm_add_dm_text_block.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Follow these steps to add the Distributed Marketing text block to Content Builder.
- **[Add a Distributed Marketing Plaintext Block to an Email Template](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_dm_use_dm_text_block.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Add a plaintext block to your email templates so that users can enter custom plaintext.