Proton Docs Improvements
The ability to have a non-pageless design, a ruler, line spacing so it can be used for academic papers (think double space, 1.15, 1.5, etc...), ability to open PDFs in Proton Docs, word count, and the paint format feature. Also, please add the ability for the mobile versions of Proton Drive to edit Proton Docs in the app or a separate Proton Doc app. I love Proton Docs though it's amazing and the UI is beautiful.
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jp
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When importing a .docx file it appears the footnotes are lost. Is that a fact or is there an option to keep them ?
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Kate Johnson
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print layout, page breaks, columns, ruler, line spacing, word count, clickable table of contents, are all critical to me.
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Mat
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Expired Work Model!
please read https://ia.net/topics/trapped-in-ms-office, before making another Office clone.
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Enrique Matta-Rodriguez
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Ruler is important for academic papers
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liquidplum
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Very important:
-- line spacing
-- paint format featureThe others: not important
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Chey Watson commented
An endless scrolling document makes it hard for me to focus and visualize my drafts as the book I intend for them to be. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. Editing in the app is also critical to me. I want to fully switch from Google Drive but don't want to sacrifice that convenience. Other than that, I agree, it's wonderful.
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Wout
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These are the things that forces me to keep using Google Docs. And an option to add a Table of Contents would also be nice!
Love the UI and general feel! -
Star
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Having pages, line spacing, special characters and the ability to add a header and footer as well as page numbers are the only things keeping me from using Proton Docs. Not having these features makes it difficult to use effectively.
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RynGM
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The lack of all of these, most importantly the pageless design, have got me stuck halfway between a migration from Google to Proton. It's such a deal-breaker if you spend a lot of time in docs and cannot be overstated.
That non-pageless working environment also stopping me selling the idea of moving to Proton for other office workers who spend a lot of time in docs, including my own wife, and I bought a Proton Duo account.
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Jessie
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Dear Proton team,
thank you for your work. I have been using protonmail for the last 5 to 7 years and some months ago I finally decided to contribute to your work by opting for a unlimited monthly plan ( and considering duo because I want access to protonmeet) since I really appreciate your work. What was also a determining factor for me was proton docs. I've loved using g..gle docs for its convenience but Im on a mission of deg..gling my life and not living under the G..gle yoke however for protondocs to be realistic and viable alternative you need to add tabs and pages please. Any other feature like dark mode, more fonts, zooming in/out, choosing to print, exporting a tab or all tabs as pdf, selecting the email address that appears as the author of the document, sharing with non-Proton usersl, checklist making, headers & footers would be helpful and a welcome addition but tabs and pages are crucial. Thank you team <3
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Jason
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Pages would be great! As well as the ability to zoom in/out on the page so that it can take up more than just a narrow column in the center of the screen.
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peacefulcryptid
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Definitely need pages instead of pageless and possibly more font options? (I love century gothic font and miss it dearly)
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kc
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This is super important!
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T commented
I'd like to see more chart options in sheets (I deal with stock prices, so I'd like to see a waterfall chart like Google Sheets offers. Thought I could jump right into Proton Sheets but alas, no waterfall chart. Not everyone needs it, but it sure is helpful to me. I'm pretty sure others would benefit from more chart options as well.
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Kappa
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It is great that we have spreadsheets now but I feel that docs are a bit unfinished - they have very basic formatting, no default styles, no outline and no pagination (which for printing and PDF export is essential) It would really be great to get all this. For now it is too basic to really do any serious writing in.
I also remember that making docs more robust was on the spring roadmap (I think)?
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Anonymous
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Adding paged layout, word count, and mobile editing would be amazing, but I'd also love to see paragraph formatting (e.g. line spacing), and tabbed documents like in Google docs!
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Mishell Baker
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Having to do a print preview just to see where the page breaks are is unacceptable.
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Kaleb
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I would really like to see the ability to have subscript and superscript, as well as hanging indent and changing the page margins.
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Lex Cirillo
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The pageless design Proton Docs currently has is *painful*! Give me clear page borders, page counts, etc. PLEASE!!! I want to use this for school/work, but I don’t even know how many pages I need to print!
I spend Hours of extra time on my writing in Google Docs getting the formatting perfect with page breaks and headers and spacing, but I can’t do that in Proton Docs (yet).
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Kyle
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Need a ruler for hanging indents.