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08e8d4ade0 Table sizing: Height/Width boxes, AutoFit to contents and a Table Properties dialog (#287)
* Table sizing: Height/Width boxes, real AutoFit Contents, Table Properties dialog (#44)

- Table Layout > Cell Size gets Height and Width boxes (inches) for the caret cell's row
  and column; each edit runs table.rowHeight / table.columnWidth, a drag is one Undo.
- AutoFit Contents now measures every column's narrowest (longest word) and widest
  (unwrapped text) content with the layout's text shaping, shares the text width the way
  Word does, and writes the widths into the table grid and cell widths.
- Table Properties opens a dialog (table width, alignment, indent; row height and rule,
  break across pages, header row; column width; cell width and vertical alignment). OK
  applies only what changed as one table.properties step; with settings the command still
  works headlessly, and without them it reports the current values.
- table.columnWidth clears the table's preferred width so the column keeps the new size;
  table.rowHeight takes an optional exact rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Progress docs: Table Properties dialog and AutoFit Contents landed (#44)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Table sizing: saturating column-span sum in sync_cell_widths

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Merge fix: one region_text (main's) after #287 met the landed table-style code

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
2026-10-10 14:52:08 -04:00

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UI parity with Microsoft Word

Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-10 · Change: major (first version; ribbon, dialogs, shortcuts and on-canvas interaction measured from crates/ui-egui and the command registry) · Target: Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4

How WordCraft looks and feels next to Word: ribbon, dialogs, panes, keyboard, mouse and touch. Typing behaviour has its own checklist (typing-parity.md). All assets are our own (AGENTS.md: no Microsoft iconography, ever).

Dimension: ~65% (estimated), 65–100 h to full (the sum of the rows below; dialog depth is counted here, not under features).

Area WordCraft Word Parity Hours
Ribbon tabs and groups All Word tabs including contextual Table Design/Layout, Picture Format, Shape Format, Header & Footer, Equation; ribbon overflow (#43, #129). Missing: Draw tab content Same plus Draw 85% (Draw in features)
Keytips (Alt / ⌃⌥ letters) ✅ (#43) ✅ 85% 1–2
Mini-toolbar on selection ✅ (#43) ✅ 80% 1–2
Quick Access Toolbar Undo, Redo, Repeat, AutoSave customizable 50% 2–3
Customize Ribbon / Customize Keyboard ❌ ✅ 0% 6–10
Keyboard shortcuts 101 bound in CommandSpec::key (measured) ~250 default shortcuts ~60% 4–6
Modal dialogs 17 (Dialog enum: Font, Paragraph, Find, Go To, Insert Table, Table Properties, Page Setup, Link, Bookmark, Word Count, Zoom, Watermark, New/Modify Style, Commands, About, Save Changes) plus panes and menus for the rest ~100 (Tabs, Borders and Shading, Columns, Symbol, Field, Caption, Index, TOC options, Citation, Define Multilevel List, Track Changes Options, Compare, Protect, Language, Hyphenation, Line Numbers, Envelopes, Labels, Mail Merge, AutoCorrect, Options panes…) ~40% 20–30
Task panes (Navigation, Styles, Comments, Reviewing, Format Picture/Shape, Thesaurus, Accessibility, Clipboard, Selection) Navigation, Styles, Comments, Thesaurus, Accessibility, Read Aloud, Zotero; Style Inspector (#236); Clipboard pane (#264) open all 70% 4–6
Context menus (right-click) text, spelling suggestions; objects and tables partial rich per context 55% 3–5
Backstage (Home, New, Open, Info, Save As, Print, Share, Export, Options) Home and New separate (#254), Info properties kept (#268) 68% 4–6
Rulers: indents, tabs, margins, table columns indents draggable (one undo, #62); tabs; table column drag pending (#49) ✅ 70% 2–3
On-canvas objects: select, drag, resize handles, nudge ✅ tested (#228) ✅ 75% —
Rotation handle, crop handles on canvas, alignment guides, smart guides ❌ ✅ 0% 4–6
Selection: word/sentence/paragraph clicks, Shift extend, F8 extend mode, column (Alt+drag, #237) ✅ ✅ 85% 1
Zoom: Ctrl+scroll, pinch (#179), zoom buttons (#232), pages side by side when zoomed out (#251) ✅ ✅ 85% —
Touchpad smooth/inertial scroll ✅ (#252) ✅ 90% —
Status bar (page x of y, words, language, view buttons, zoom slider) ✅ ✅ 80% —
Interface themes (light, dark, system #249), dark page (#194) ✅ ✅ 90% —
Platform conventions (macOS menus/traffic lights #255, Windows title bar, Linux CSD on Wayland #78) partial native 70% 3–5
Screen readers (VoiceOver, Narrator, Orca) AccessKit on, document canvas exposure untested full 25% 10–15
Right-to-left (mirrored) interface ❌ ✅ (Arabic, Hebrew Word) 0% in localization

Revision history

Date Change Summary
2026-10-10 trivial Table Properties dialog and Table Layout Height/Width boxes (#44)
2026-10-10 minor Merged main: Style Inspector, Column Selection, zoom buttons, inertial scrolling, File Info landed
2026-10-10 major First version: ribbon, dialog, shortcut and interaction inventory