gridcraft/docs/ui-parity.md

UI parity

Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-22 · Change: minor (Page Up and Ctrl+Up into frozen rows, Ctrl+Left and Alt+Page Up into frozen columns bring the scrolled area back; Auto Fill Options button after a left-drag of the fill handle (#1403); Show Outline Symbols, Ctrl+8; a too-wide number in a repeat-fill format such as Accounting shows #### instead of losing its leading digits; Esc and Enter close a data validation alert over the cell editor; Ctrl+Enter fill gives each cell the automatic number format typing gives it; keytip letters typed with Alt held, #1846; Number Stored as Text indicator and Convert to Number) · Target: Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365), Excel for Mac 16.113.4

Interaction, controls and feel, against Excel. Part of target-app-parity.md. UI/UX fidelity: ~55% ready, 50–80 h (estimated). Ribbon command coverage is measured separately in parity-checklist.md (274 / 290).

Sources: crates/ui-egui/src (ribbon, grid, editor, formula bar, dialogs, panes), crates/engine/src/cmd (shortcuts in command specs), the owner's black-box notes (plan/excel/observed-ui.md, local only) and user issues.

Window and chrome

Element	Excel	GridCraft	Status
2026-10-14	minor	Dialogs (Find and Replace, Go To, Format Cells, Sort and the rest) move by their title bar instead of staying pinned to the centre (#1250)
Title bar, Quick Access Toolbar, AutoSave toggle	yes	yes	done; macOS window controls misaligned (#170), Dock icon size (#169)
Ribbon: tabs, groups, split buttons, galleries, contextual tabs	yes	yes (Table Design, Chart Design, Format, PivotTable, Header & Footer tabs); Fill Color, Font Color and the Format Cells colour pickers end with Recent Colors and More Colors… (#928)	done; missing contextual tabs for pictures, shapes, sparklines, slicers
Ribbon collapse, simplified ribbon, customize ribbon/QAT	yes	partial	customization missing (File ▸ Options is the one missing File command)
Ribbon: tabs, groups, split buttons, galleries, contextual tabs	yes	yes (Table Design, Chart Design, Format, PivotTable tabs)	done; missing contextual tabs for pictures, shapes, sparklines, header/footer, slicers
Ribbon collapse, simplified ribbon, customize ribbon/QAT	yes	partial	customization missing
Key tips (Alt / F10 then letters)	yes, every ribbon control	initial (#43, 10-10): Alt or F10 shows key tips on Home for alignment, Paste Special and AutoFit plus legacy Alt sequences; other tabs and controls not yet (#33, #49)	3–5 h
Formula bar with Name Box, expand, function hints	yes	yes	done
Sheet tabs: rename, reorder, colour, hide, scroll	yes	yes	Ctrl-drag (Cmd or Option on macOS) drops a copy (#971); active tab revealed on navigation and resize (#681); manual wheel/trackpad browsing preserved; rename focus bug on macOS (#145)
Formula bar with Name Box, expand, function hints	yes	yes	done; dynamic-array spill children show the source formula muted and read-only, using current spill ownership
Sheet tabs: rename, reorder, colour, hide, scroll	yes	yes	active tab revealed on navigation and resize (#681); manual wheel/trackpad browsing preserved; rename focus bug on macOS (#145)
Sheet tabs: rename, reorder, colour, hide, scroll	yes	yes	active tab revealed on navigation and resize (#681); New sheet (+) right after the last tab, the strip capped at 60% of the bar (#943); manual wheel/trackpad browsing preserved; next/previous skips Hidden and VeryHidden sheets and retains the current sheet and selection when no visible destination exists; rename focus bug on macOS (#145)
Status bar: Sum/Count/Average and more, view buttons, zoom	yes	yes	customizable statistics partial
Task panes (Format Chart, Comments, Watch, Selection, PivotTable fields)	yes	yes; PivotTable source-field list scrollbar sits at the right edge of its pane	element-level Format pane for shapes and pictures missing
Backstage (File) view: Info, New with templates, Open recent, Export, Options	yes	partial	Options dialog and template gallery missing
Dark mode, system appearance	yes	yes	done (10-09); follows the system on first run, title-bar switch and File › Display theme (#194, #239)
Backstage (File) view: Info, New with templates, Open recent, Export, Options	yes	yes (#174, 10-11): the File tab opens a full-window view (Esc or the back arrow return) with Home, New (blank + the three samples), Open (recent + Browse; the recent list tells when each workbook was last changed, 10-12), Info (location, properties, Protect Workbook), Save, Save As, Print (page preview, active sheet or workbook, fit to page, Page Setup), Export (PDF, CSV, web page), Close and Options (file.options: theme, language, formula bar, AutoSave, calculation)	no Account, Share or template gallery beyond the samples; Options applies at once (no OK/Cancel dialog) and holds only the settings GridCraft has
Dark mode, system appearance	yes	yes	done (10-09)
Page Layout view (paper view with rulers and header editing)	yes	yes (#329, 10-11): per-sheet view saved in XLSX, pages with margins and gaps on the print pagination, "Click to add data" pages, rulers (inches or centimetres), headers and footers drawn and edited in place with a Header & Footer tab	margins drag on the rulers (#792, with header and footer margins); header/footer pictures, Different First Page / Odd & Even missing (1–3 h)
Multiple windows per workbook	yes	no (#162)	see hardware-parity.md

Grid interaction

AutoFit column width includes dropdown space only for filter header cells (tables and ordinary AutoFilters), then takes the maximum against body cells. Windows Excel 16.0 build 20326, observed using synthetic workbooks via its public automation API on 2026-10-11, reserves 12.5 points at 100-200% zoom and 25 points at 50%, independently of row height. GridCraft uses that allowance in its grid units; its existing approximate font measurement remains. Header text aligns and clips before the button. Command and header-double-click paths share this logic, with one undo step.

Behaviour	Status
Click/drag/Shift/Ctrl selection, multi-area selection	rectangular drag works in one direction only in some cases (#28)
Cursor while dragging cells, headers, freeze handles and objects	stable for the active drag (#936); Draw tools keep their crosshair; header arrows and a custom cell cursor remain unimplemented
Selection outline glides to a new selection (Excel: "Provide feedback with animation")	done (10-11): 0.12 s, decelerating, with the fill and fill handle; View ▸ Animations (view.animations) turns it off. The timing is an estimate, not yet measured against Excel; the system's reduced-motion setting isn't followed yet
Fill handle: drag to fill series, double-click to fill down, right-drag menu	fill done (Ctrl+drag swaps copy and series; month patterns use the workbook's 1900 or 1904 date system); right-drag menu partial: Copy Cells, Fill Series, Fill Formatting Only, Fill Without Formatting, Series…; a left-drag leaves an Auto Fill Options button with the first four (gone once the workbook changes or the selection moves); Fill Days/Weekdays/Months/Years, Linear/Growth Trend and Flash Fill missing
Drag-move and drag-copy cells (border drag, Ctrl/Option, Shift to insert)	done (M3)
In-cell editing, Enter/Tab movement, Alt/Option+Enter line breaks	done
Point mode (click/drag/arrow references), reference colouring, F4	done; Command/Ctrl-click adds separate arguments with the edit's locale separator, and Shift-click extends the current reference from a fixed anchor on the same sheet. Pointer-event regressions cover repeated/reversed selections, manual separators, sheet switches and keyboard continuation.
Number-format colors ([Green], [Color1]–[Color56])	Rendered in grid and PDF from shared RGB mappings (#1452)
Point mode (click/drag/arrow references), reference colouring, F4	done
AutoComplete in columns, function autocomplete and argument tips	done; cell helpers clip to the worksheet and hide when the editor scrolls out (#200)
Header resize and double-click AutoFit	done (#42, #88 for header dividers)
Data › Advanced Filter	dialog offers in-place or copy-to filtering, list and optional criteria ranges, and unique records; Alt+A,Q opens it (#1622). The engine's copy-to path clears only the result footprint and rejects worksheet overflow (#1031).
Outline symbols for grouped rows / columns (band beside the headers, brackets, − / +, level buttons 1…n+1)	done (#373): clicks run data.hideDetail / data.showDetail / data.showLevels, frozen panes and right-to-left sheets included; summary rows/columns are always below/right (the "Summary rows below detail" setting isn't modelled), View › Show Outline Symbols (Ctrl+8) hides the bands and is saved with the sheet, and a block of cells still groups rows without the Rows / Columns dialog
Reorder selected whole columns by dragging their headers	done (10-11)
Freeze panes, split panes	freeze done; split to verify
A Table's header names and filter buttons in the column headings once its header row scrolls away	done (#1423): with the active cell in the Table, as in Excel; the button opens the column's filter menu, the rest of the heading still selects the column. Plain AutoFilter ranges keep their letters (Excel does the same)
Copy as HTML table for other apps	done (#36, 10-10)
Context menu on cells	16 items (Cut, Copy, Paste, Paste Special, Insert, Delete, Clear Contents, Filter by value, Sort, New Comment, New Note, Format Cells, Pick From Drop-down List, Define Name, Link). Insert Copied Cells (Insert Cut Cells for whole rows/columns) while the clipboard holds a copy (#21). Missing: Insert Cut Cells for a cell block, paste-option icons, Quick Analysis, Get Data from Table, Show Changes, Smart Lookup
Move and resize charts, pictures and shapes	charts can't be resized (#190)
Context menus on row/column headers, sheet tabs, charts, shapes	headers and tabs done; objects partial
Quick Analysis (Ctrl+Q)	missing
Smooth scrolling, scrollbars	done; vertical scrollbar added 10-09 (#73); horizontal scrollbar in the tab bar (60/40 split, drag, track click pages) 10-13 (#176, #840); the tabs/scrollbar split can't be dragged yet
Text overflow into empty neighbours, wrap, rotation, shrink to fit	done

Keyboard

Area	Excel	GridCraft
Shortcuts bound to commands	200+ documented shortcuts per platform	59 command shortcuts plus grid and editor keys (55 distinct keys handled in ui-egui)
Ctrl+arrow, Ctrl+Shift+arrow, Ctrl+Home/End, Page Up/Down, Alt+Page	yes	done
Ctrl+1, Ctrl+; and Ctrl+Shift+; , Ctrl+D/R, Ctrl+E, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+K, Ctrl+Shift+L	yes	most done; audit pending
F2, F4, F5, F9 family, Shift+F3, F11	yes	most; F11 chart sheet missing (no chart sheets)
Mac-specific (Cmd variants, Fn keys)	yes	Cmd mapping done
Delete selected charts, pictures and shapes	yes	done (#213)
Shortcuts bound to commands	200+ documented shortcuts per platform	audited below (#110): shortcuts whose feature exists are bound, with the exceptions listed; the rest wait for their features
Ctrl+arrow, Ctrl+Shift+arrow, Ctrl+Home/End, Ctrl+Shift+Home/End, Page Up/Down, Alt+Page	yes	done
Ctrl+1, Ctrl+; and Ctrl+Shift+; , Ctrl+D/R, Ctrl+E, Ctrl+T/L, Ctrl+K, Ctrl+Shift+L, Ctrl+Shift+~!@#$%^&_	yes	done
F2, F4, F5, F7, F9 family, Shift+F2/F3/F10/F11, F12	yes	done; F11 chart sheet, F8 extend mode, F3 Paste Name, F4 Repeat missing
Mac-specific (Cmd variants, Control variants, Fn keys)	yes	done where a feature exists (keymap.rs picks the Mac variant)
Sequential Alt access keys (Alt, H, N, …) on every ribbon tab	yes	364-sequence keytip table for all tabs: per-control badges, prefix waiting, dropdowns open for editing (type/arrows/Enter), pending bindings for not-yet-built commands; letters also work with left Alt held (Alt+H, O, A), as in Excel; QAT/Backstage excluded
Requests	—	#110 (more shortcuts and hot keys), #33 (sequential Alt; initial support landed in #43)

Shortcut audit (#110)

Checked against Microsoft's published "Keyboard shortcuts in Excel" (Windows and Mac tables, 2026-10-11). Alt key-tip sequences are tracked separately (#33). Bindings live in crates/ui-egui/src/grid.rs (navigation, editing keys), ribbon::shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd letters), keymap.rs (everything added in #110, with a lookup table that tests cover) and formula_bar.rs (keys while editing). "Ctrl" means Cmd on a Mac unless the Mac column says otherwise. Number-format and border keys match the physical key (Ctrl+Shift+4, wherever $ is).

Shortcut (Windows)	Mac	Action	Status
Ctrl+C / X / V, Ctrl+Z / Y, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+B / I / U	same with Cmd	clipboard, undo/redo, select all, bold/italic/underline	present
Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Shift+S, Ctrl+O, Ctrl+N, Ctrl+W	Cmd	save, save as, open, new, close	present
Ctrl+F, Ctrl+H, Ctrl+G, Ctrl+K, Ctrl+T	Cmd (Ctrl+H)	find, replace, go to, hyperlink, table	present
Ctrl+D, Ctrl+R, Ctrl+E, Ctrl+1, Ctrl+9 / 0, Ctrl+Shift+9 / 0	Cmd (Ctrl+E on Mac: see below)	fill down/right, Flash Fill, Format Cells, hide/unhide	present
Ctrl+- , Ctrl+Shift+=	Cmd	Delete / Insert cells dialog	present
Ctrl+; , Ctrl+`	Control+;	current date, show formulas	present (Mac Control+; added)
Arrows, Shift / Ctrl / Ctrl+Shift+arrows, Home, Ctrl+Home / End, Page Up / Down, Ctrl+Page Up / Down	Cmd+arrows	navigation and extension	present
Tab, Shift+Tab, Enter, Shift+Enter, Ctrl+Space, Shift+Space, Delete, Esc	same	entry and selection	present
F2, F9, F10 (key tips), F4 / Alt+Enter / Ctrl+Enter / Ctrl+Shift+Enter while editing	same	edit, calculate, references, new line, fill, array	present
Ctrl+Shift+~ ! @ # $ % ^	Control+Shift	General, Number, Time, Date, Currency, Percent, Scientific	added
Ctrl+Shift+& / Ctrl+Shift+_	Cmd+Option+0 / Cmd+Option+- (and Cmd+Option+arrows for one side)	outline border / remove borders	added
Ctrl+2 / 3 / 4 / 5	—	bold / italic / underline / strikethrough	added
Ctrl+6	Control+6	hide / show objects (charts, pictures, shapes, slicers), saved as workbookPr showObjects	added
Ctrl+Shift+:	Cmd+;	current time	added
Ctrl+' / Ctrl+Shift+"	Control	formula / value from the cell above	added
Ctrl+L	Cmd+L is Align Left, Cmd+E Center, Control+E Flash Fill	create table	added
Ctrl+Shift+L	Cmd+Shift+F (present) / Control+Shift+L	filter	added
Ctrl+Shift+F, Ctrl+Shift+G	—	Format Cells Font tab, Workbook Statistics	added
—	Cmd+Shift+H, Cmd+Shift+R, Cmd+Shift+K / J, Control+L, Control+U	replace, sort, group / ungroup, Define Name, edit cell	added
Alt+Shift+Right / Left	Option+Right / Left is next/previous sheet	group / ungroup	added
Ctrl+Shift+* (Ctrl+Shift+8), Ctrl+Shift+Space	Cmd+Shift+Space	current region, select all	added
Ctrl+Shift+Home / End, Shift+Home	same	extend to A1 / last used cell / row start	added
Ctrl+P	Cmd+P	print	added
Ctrl+Shift+> / <	Cmd+Shift+> / <	font size	added
Ctrl+Alt+V	Cmd+Control+V, Cmd+Option+V	Paste Special	added
Ctrl+Alt+= / Ctrl+Alt+-	—	zoom in / out (10% steps)	added
Alt+=, Alt+Down, Alt+Page Down / Up	Option+Down, Option+Page Down / Up	AutoSum, drop-down list, one screen right / left	added
Alt+Down on a filter header	Option+Down	Open the existing AutoFilter popup; validation dropdowns keep priority	added (AutoFilter portion of #441; Ribbon dropdowns and column value picker are separate work)
Alt+F1, Alt+Shift+F1, Shift+F11	Shift+F11	embedded chart, new sheet	added
Shift+F2, Ctrl+Shift+F2	Shift+F2, Cmd+Shift+F2	note, threaded comment	added
Shift+F3, Ctrl+F3, Ctrl+Shift+F3	Shift+F3, Cmd+F3 (Define Name), Cmd+Shift+F3	Insert Function, Name Manager, Create from Selection	added
F5, Shift+F5 (Mac), F7, Shift+F9, Ctrl+Alt+F9, F12, Ctrl+F4	same	Go To, Find, Spelling, calculate sheet / all, Save As, close	added
Shift+F10, Alt+Shift+F10, Ctrl+F1	Shift+F10, Cmd+Option+R	context menu, Error Checking, ribbon	added
F1, F3, F4 (repeat), F6 / Shift+F6, F8 / Shift+F8, F11, End mode	same	help, Paste Name, Repeat, pane cycling, extend/add mode, chart sheet	missing (no such feature yet)
Ctrl+Q, Ctrl+A after a function name, Ctrl+Shift+U, Ctrl+Alt+P	same	Quick Analysis, Function Arguments, formula bar height, tooltips	missing
Ctrl+Shift+A after a function name	Control+Shift+A	argument names: =SUMIF( becomes =SUMIF(range,criteria,sum_range), the ( added when missing; one Undo takes them back	added
Ctrl+6, Ctrl+Q, Ctrl+A after a function name, Ctrl+Shift+U, Ctrl+Alt+P	same	objects, Quick Analysis, Function Arguments, formula bar height, tooltips	missing
Ctrl+Shift+Page Up / Down, Ctrl+Alt+5, Ctrl+Shift+F1, Ctrl+F5–F10, Alt+F8 / F11 / F12	same	group sheets, shape cycling, full screen, window keys, macros, VBA, Power Query	missing
—	Cmd+= (calculate), Cmd+T (references while editing; F4 works), Shift+F7, Cmd+Shift+L	Mac-only extras	missing (Cmd+= is egui's zoom key; no thesaurus or Modify Cell Style)

On Windows, AltGr arrives as Ctrl+Alt: a Ctrl+Alt key that also types a character is treated as text, so AltGr symbols (e.g. ~ on a German layout) and user-defined Ctrl+Alt+letter hotkeys that type a character (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+A for ä) never trigger a shortcut, Ctrl+letter ones like Select All included.

Dialogs

Format Cells, Insert Function/Formula Builder, Find and Replace, Go To and Go To Special, Sort, Name Manager, Data Validation, Paste Special, Conditional Formatting manager, Page Setup, Goal Seek, Scenario Manager, Data Analysis, Forecast Sheet and others exist. Missing or partial: Options, Solver, Power Query editor, Insert Object, Equation editor, Protect/Allow Edit Ranges, Workbook Links, Accessibility checker. Like Excel's, every dialog opens centred and moves by its title bar, keeping its place while it is open (#1250).

Accessibility

AccessKit is enabled, but the grid, ribbon and dialogs are not exposed as an accessible tree with cell addresses and values, so screen readers can't navigate a sheet; there is no high-contrast theme or accessibility checker. Excel is strong here. 12–18 h.

Feel

Pixel comparison against Excel screenshots hasn't been run since M1; fonts depend on the system (no Calibri; Carlito would match metrics, #29, #4, #168 for weights); icons are GridCraft's own by rule and will never match Office's, by design.

Work (50–80 h)

Key tips 3–5 · remaining shortcuts with their features 2–4 · context menus and Quick Analysis 5–8 · Page Layout view 8–12 · Options dialog and ribbon/QAT customization 6–10 · accessibility 12–18 · selection and scrollbar bugs 2–4 · pixel/feel pass against observed Excel 7–12.

Revision history

Date	Change	Summary
2026-10-23	minor	Frozen panes: Page Up, Ctrl+Up and Shift variants that move from the scrolled rows into the frozen ones bring the scrolled rows back to the top, so the rows in between are seen again (Page Up from far down used to end on row 1 with the view still a page down); Ctrl+Left and Alt+Page Up do the same for frozen columns. Other ways of selecting a frozen cell (click, Find, Go To, Undo, formula pointing) leave the view where it is
2026-10-23	minor	After a left-drag of the fill handle an Auto Fill Options button sits below the filled cells; its menu redoes the fill as Copy Cells, Fill Series, Fill Formatting Only or Fill Without Formatting (undoes the drag's fill, then edit.autoFill in that mode). It goes away when the workbook changes or the selection moves (#1403)
2026-10-22	minor	Show Outline Symbols (view.showOutlineSymbols, Ctrl+8): a sheet can hide the outline's level buttons and brackets while keeping its outline, as Excel saves with showOutlineSymbols="0" (read and written); the grid then gives the bands no room
2026-10-22	minor	A number in a repeat-fill format (*, as in the Accounting format) that is too wide for its column shows #### like any other number, instead of the fill rebuilding the value so its leading digits were cut off (2,509.00 CHF drawn as "509.00 CHF")
2026-10-21	minor	Background error checking, first part (#1994): a constant whose text would be a number if typed (signs, thousands, currency, percent, exponent, parenthesised negative) gets Excel's green corner triangle; the active cell then shows a warning button whose menu names the problem and offers Convert to Number for the selection (formulas.convertToNumber). Dates, times and fractions kept as text and formula results are not flagged, as in Excel
2026-10-21	minor	Paste Special laid out as Excel's: Paste and Operation options each in two columns inside a frame, Skip blanks and Transpose side by side, Paste Link as a button that pastes references at once; labels translated (the generic form didn't translate them) and the window no longer runs past the screen
2026-10-21	minor	Form dialogs (conditional-format quick rules, New Name, Remove Duplicates, Text to Columns and every other Dialog::form) fit their content: OK and Cancel sit in a row under the last field instead of a right-to-left layout that took the screen's whole height and left the buttons floating halfway down
2026-10-20	minor	Esc and Enter close a message over the cell editor, such as a data validation alert, and the entry stays open to fix, with the keyboard back in it. Before, the editor took them (the first Esc cancelled the edit behind the alert and only the second closed it), and after the message typing went nowhere until the cell was clicked
2026-10-19	minor	Ctrl+Enter (range.fill) gives each cell what typing the input there gives: a General cell gets the automatic number format (5%, $5, 3/4/2026, =TODAY()) even when it already held a value, and a cell with its own format, a formatted row or column, or Text keeps it. Cells that held a value used to keep General (5% showed 0.05), and empty cells took the active cell's format
2026-10-19	trivial	While a mouse button is held (a click or a drag selecting cells) the selection outline is drawn on its cells at once instead of gliding after the pointer, which read as lag; keyboard moves still glide
2026-10-18	minor	Keytip letters typed with left Alt held continue the sequence (Alt+H, O, A / Alt+H, O, I ran nothing before: Alt+letter cancelled keytips); other Alt combinations, AltGr and macOS Option are unchanged (#1846)
2026-10-17	minor	A Ctrl+Alt+letter key that types a character (a user-defined Windows hotkey such as Ctrl+Alt+A for ä) types it instead of running the Ctrl+letter shortcut, e.g. Select All (#1530)
2026-10-16	minor	Right-drag on the fill handle opens the fill menu on release: Copy Cells, Fill Series, Fill Formatting Only, Fill Without Formatting, Series…; Esc cancels the drag or closes the menu without filling
2026-10-16	minor	With the active cell in a Table whose header row is scrolled out of view, the column headings show the header names and their filter buttons in place of the letters (#1423)
2026-10-16	minor	Ctrl+6 hides every object (charts, pictures, shapes, slicers) and shows them again; hidden objects are not drawn, take no clicks and drop their selection, and the setting is saved with the workbook (workbookPr showObjects)
2026-10-16	minor	Ctrl+Shift+A (Control+Shift+A on a Mac) after a function name, or after its (, inserts the argument names and the closing parenthesis, as in Excel; one Undo in the editor takes them back
2026-10-16	minor	Advanced Filter ribbon dialog, optional criteria for unique-only extraction (#1622); safe copy-to output (#1031)
2026-10-16	minor	Remove Duplicates shows an editable Range field initialized from the selection and passes it to the engine on OK (#1388). Live range-picking outside the dialog remains unsupported
2026-10-16	minor	Web printing registers one-shot afterprint cleanup before opening the dialog; missing content windows and setup, listener or print failures also release the hidden iframe and PDF blob URL (#1054)
2026-10-16	minor	The shared UI clock delegates to the core Unix-millisecond clock, which reads Date.now() on wasm, instead of returning zero there (#1026). Native clock contract tested; browser timing remains unverified
2026-10-16	trivial	Web: preferences (theme, interface size, language, editing options…) are kept in the browser's localStorage between visits, as the desktop app keeps ui.json and prefs.json; before, a reload brought back light mode and the defaults (#1562)
2026-10-15	minor	Number-format named colors use their RGB values; indexed [Color1]–[Color56] resolve through the shared legacy palette in grid and PDF (#1452)
2026-10-14	minor	Spill-child formula bar uses the anchor formula with disabled theme text and blocks formula-bar edit entry; selection and recalculation restore ordinary behavior
2026-10-14	minor	PivotTable source-field list fills the pane width so its scrollbar stays at the list's right edge
2026-10-13	minor	Dragging a sheet tab with Ctrl held (Cmd or Option on macOS) drops a copy of the sheet where the tab is released, with the copy cursor (#971)
2026-10-13	trivial	More Colors… and Recent Colors (#928)
2026-10-13	minor	Grid drags keep their own cursor over selection borders, fill handles and outside the grid; hover resumes on release (#936)
2026-10-13	minor	AutoFill month patterns retain the workbook's date system, preventing shifted dates in 1904 workbooks when filling forward or backward
2026-10-13	minor	Sheet tab bar: the tab strip shrinks to its tabs, up to 60% of the bar, so New sheet (+) sits right after the last tab and the horizontal scrollbar takes the rest (part of #943)
2026-10-13	minor	Horizontal scrollbar in the sheet tab bar: drag, track click pages, frozen columns excluded from the page (#840)
2026-10-13	minor	Formula-entry Command/Ctrl-click adds arguments and Shift-click extends references; ordinary replacement and dragging retain their behavior. Readiness estimates unchanged.
2026-10-12	minor	Next/previous sheet navigation no longer activates hidden worksheets at either workbook boundary; command tests cover Hidden, VeryHidden and selection retention
2026-10-12	minor	The File view's recent list tells when each workbook was last changed, read off the UI thread
2026-10-12	minor	Ctrl+wheel zoom steps along a ladder of percentages about 20% apart that never skips 100%, gliding to each step with animations on, so a notch out undoes a notch in (it drifted: 100 → 122 → 101); Excel steps 15 points, see decisions.md
2026-10-12	minor	Page Layout view: left/right/top/bottom margins are dragged on the rulers (#792)
2026-10-12	minor	Alt+Down opens the active filter header's existing popup, with validation priority and mirrored anchoring on right-to-left sheets (part of #441)
2026-10-12	minor	Paste from the ribbon (button and options menu), the cell and header context menus and the macOS menu bar's Edit menu pastes what is on the system clipboard, as Cmd/Ctrl+V does, instead of only GridCraft's own copy (the web build, which can't read the clipboard on request, still pastes GridCraft's copy). Copy and Cut by keytip (H,C / H,X) publish to the system clipboard like the ribbon buttons. After a control-channel or MCP copy, which leaves the system clipboard alone, Paste pastes that copy until other text is copied. Once a cut has been pasted, Paste (ribbon, menus or Cmd/Ctrl+V) doesn't paste the cut's clipboard text again over the moved cells (Excel pastes a cut once), and the Paste keytip (H,V,P) pastes the system clipboard like the button. Regression test for the Paste button click freeze in 0.5.0 (#273, fixed by #272); the Paste button gets an accessible "Paste" name for screen readers
2026-10-11	minor	AutoFit accounts for table and ordinary filter dropdowns, including low zoom; header text excludes the button area
2026-10-11	minor	Outline band for grouped rows and columns, Show / Hide Detail on the Data tab, numpad navigation keys in shortcuts (#373)
2026-10-11	minor	Shift+Space / Ctrl+Space no longer start an edit; Control+Space selects the column on Mac (#338)
2026-10-11	minor	Selected whole columns can be reordered by dragging their headers to an insertion point
2026-10-11	minor	Page Layout view with rulers and in-place headers and footers (#329)
2026-10-11	minor	Forecast Sheet dialog (#322)
2026-10-11	minor	Delete and Backspace now remove the selected chart, picture or shape (#213)
2026-10-10	minor	Keep formula helpers inside the worksheet when scrolling (#200)
2026-10-11	trivial	Theme: title-bar light/dark switch, File › Display theme, system appearance on first run (#194, #239)
2026-10-11	minor	Keyboard shortcut audit against Microsoft's Windows and Mac lists; missing shortcuts for existing features added (#110)
2026-10-11	minor	File tab Backstage view and File › Options (#174)
2026-10-11	minor	Selection outline glide and the Animations setting
2026-10-11	major	Sequential Alt keytips: full-tab table (364 sequences), badges on every control, dropdowns open for typing/arrow editing, colour-palette arrows, real-Excel corrections (issues #33, #49)
2026-10-10	minor	Chart resize bug (#190)
2026-10-10	major	Created: chrome, grid, keyboard, dialogs, accessibility; key tips, Page Layout view and accessibility tree flagged