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Like Word: the pointer turns into a resize arrow over a column border or a row's bottom border, and a small handle shows past the table's bottom-right corner. Dragging shows a dashed guide; releasing runs the new `table.resizeDrag` command (page coordinates), so a drag is one undo step and the selection is kept. Esc cancels a drag. - Column border: the right neighbour gives or takes the difference, so the table keeps its width; Shift, or the table's right edge, changes only the column on the left. Columns stay at least 6 pt wide. - Row border: sets the row's "at least" height; the margins and border bands the layout adds are measured and taken off, so the row is drawn at the dragged height. - Corner handle: scales every column and the rows on that page. - Widths come from the drawn layout, so autofit and percentage widths don't make the result jump; a merged cell hides the border it covers. - Borders are hit-tested in the existing canvas mouse handler, only within a few pixels of a border, so clicks in cells still place the caret. Engine: crates/engine/src/cmd/table_resize.rs (7 tests). UI: crates/ui-egui/src/table_resize.rs, wired into canvas.rs; kittest tests drive real pointer events through the whole window (one undo step per drag, selection kept, clicks in cells still move the caret, Esc cancels). The command label is translated in all nine interface catalogs. Progress docs updated: gaps, ui-parity, target-app-parity, ROADMAP. `cargo xtask ci` passes (fmt, clippy, test, assets, layers, wasm). Co-authored-by: rabis <340973947+rabis7575@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
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Where WordCraft falls short of Word
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-11 · Change: trivial (table borders and the resize handle drag on the page, #217; previously trivial: formatting revisions landed, #41; previously trivial: Draw Table and Eraser landed, #303; previously minor: beta distance restated: ~15 points, ~150–230 h; previously: first version; every known shortfall from the 2026-10-10 re-measure, ranked) · Target: Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4
The work list. One entry per shortfall, ranked by how much it stops a Word user from switching
(B = blocks beta). Each says what's missing, the evidence, who it hurts, an Opus 5.5 agent
wall-clock estimate, and which parity document tracks it. Agents: pick from the top, check open PRs
first (gh pr list), and update this file and the parity doc when a gap closes.
Native save reliability: synthetic cases on macOS reproduced loss through the predictable temporary-file name. Saves now use owned, exclusively created siblings, synchronize before replacement and clean up on failure; originals survive pre-replacement errors. This narrows save-path reliability under gap #3; the listed field failures and broader stability work remain open. See save-path guarantees.
Ranked
| # | Gap | B | Evidence | Impact | Hours | Doc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DOCX never tested on real-world files. No corpus of files from Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice and Pages has been opened, rendered and round-tripped and compared with Word page by page | B | No corpus in the repo; crates/docx/tests are synthetic fixtures (including omitted/empty paragraph-default preservation); "DOCX fidelity corpus: not started" since 2026-10-06 |
Everyone: the files people receive are the files that break | 30–50 | file-format-parity.md |
| 2 | Ink and drawing canvases are dropped on open and lost on save, silently; OLE objects show only their picture | B | No ink or drawing-canvas (wpc) handling in crates/docx; group shapes (wpg) read and written (#267). Charts and SmartArt are drawn (#292) and, with OLE objects, written back with all their parts on save (#319) |
Documents with diagrams drawn in Word or pen notes lose content without warning | 4–8 to preserve ink and drawing canvases; 45–70 to render and edit charts and SmartArt (#13) | file-format-parity.md |
| 3 | Crashes and freezes in the field: startup crash on Intel UHD Graphics (#170) (lag on GPUs without a DirectX 12 driver fixed, #316), freezes (#77, #59 Thai fonts, #31 font selector), no writes without admin on Windows 11 (#218), broken shape tool (#142), images can't be moved (#82) | B | 62 open issues, ~15 of them crashes, hangs or data-path failures | Anyone hit loses work or trust; the never-crash standard covers panics, not hangs or GPU driver faults | 20–30 | target-app-parity.md (Stability) |
| 4 | Pagination differs from Word: Aptos has no metric-matched substitute; legacy compatibility options ignored; no page-by-page comparison harness | B | layout-parity.md; typing-parity.md Known gaps | Page counts and line breaks differ, which matters for forms, legal and academic work | 30–50 + owner (font) | layout-parity.md |
| 5 | Content controls landed (#381): w:sdt kept, shown and edited (Developer tab, Design Mode, Properties). Move tracking landed (#400): w:moveFrom/w:moveTo with their named ranges round-trip, a tracked cut and paste of a paragraph or sentence records a move, either end accepts/rejects both, green double strike/underline markup and "Moved from/to" balloons; still missing: drag-and-drop moves (no text drag yet) and move options in Track Changes Options. Formatting revisions landed (#41): w:rPrChange/w:pPrChange/w:tblPrChange/w:trPrChange/w:tcPrChange/w:sectPrChange/w:numberingChange round-trip, are recorded while tracking, accepted/rejected and shown in balloons; still missing: tracked style-definition changes and table/section changes made in WordCraft. Opaque custom XML backing stores now survive saves; binding evaluation remains absent. |
B | Issues #41, #400; source grep | Legal and editorial review workflows; templates with form controls | 5–8 | file-format-parity.md |
| 6 | No native printing on desktop: File › Print opens the PDF in the system viewer, which prints (#286); File › Print has a preview, page range, odd/even, copies and collate (#641); printer choice, duplex and pages per sheet are still the system's; web prints through the browser (#209) | B | ui.print → apps/wordcraft/src/print.rs; issue #15 |
Everyone who prints | 5–8 | hardware-parity.md |
| 7 | Dialog depth: 54 modal dialogs vs Word's ~100 | B | Dialog enum in crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs |
Power users reach for dialogs the ribbon alone doesn't cover | 11–19 | ui-parity.md |
| 8 | Proofing is English only; no language per run, no dictionaries for other languages | crates/proof has one dictionary; Word ships 120 proofing tools; issues #25, #40, #100 |
Every non-English writer | 25–45 | localization-parity.md | |
| 9 | Password-protected files can't be opened or saved | #55; docbin detects and refuses RC4/XOR |
Corporate and legal users | 6–10 | file-format-parity.md | |
| 10 | Objects: no group (#267 open), text in a freely rotated text box (free rotation and flips landed, #332; text direction, alignment and linked text boxes landed, #369; contour wrap and wrap side landed, #354), shape effects, WordArt 3-D effects and connector routing around shapes (WordArt effects and warps and glued connectors landed, #416), dragging members inside a Drawing Canvas (the canvas landed, #344) | parity-checklist.md (Shape Format 6/6, Layout › Group) | Newsletters, flyers, reports with diagrams | 20–30 | target-app-parity.md | |
| 11 | Interface languages: 8 of the 12 key languages missing (hi, ar, fr, id, de, ko, vi, pt-PT); no mirrored RTL interface; ~5% of strings still English in the six translated catalogs | localization-parity.md | Most of the world's writers | 50–80 | localization-parity.md | |
| 12 | Draw tab / ink: pens, pencil, highlighter, eraser, Select and Hide Ink landed (#307); Lasso Select, Add Pen, Ink to Shape and Ink Replay landed (#395); missing: Ink to Math, arrows in Ink to Shape, pressure, Word's own ink (w14:contentPart/InkML) |
parity-checklist.md (Draw 9/11) | Pen and tablet users | 4–8 | hardware-parity.md | |
| 13 | Charts and SmartArt editing (editing charts and SmartArt from Word, more chart types and formatting) | insert.chart and Chart Design basics landed (#409): WordCraft's own charts are editable; charts from Word stay read-only (no embedded-workbook editing), no combo/3D/radar/stock charts, axis or series formatting; Insert › SmartArt landed (#497) for graphics WordCraft makes |
Reports and business documents | 35–55 | target-app-parity.md | |
| 14 | .doc can't be written; metafile pictures and Word 6/95 files refused |
crates/docbin is read-only |
Users exchanging files with old Word or legacy systems | 25–40 | file-format-parity.md | |
| 15 | References depth: sources not saved in DOCX (#169 open); no EndNote/Mendeley desktop integration | Sources live only in the session (#169 open) | Students and researchers | 6–10 | target-app-parity.md | |
| 16 | Right-to-left completeness: kashida, RTL in HTML/ODT/RTF; eight older RTL bug reports to re-verify after #207 (#215, #211, #199, #66, #63, #48, #19). RTL tables and sections landed (#362) | layout-parity.md | Arabic, Persian, Hebrew writers | 7–11 | layout-parity.md | |
| 17 | East Asian typography: Asian Typography options (Phonetic Guide landed, #288; Enclose Characters landed, #297; document grid landed, #391; vertical text landed, #491) | Catalog misses para.asianTypography |
Chinese, Japanese and Korean documents | 11–19 | layout-parity.md | |
| 18 | Screen-reader access to the document canvas: exposed, not yet tried with real screen readers | The canvas describes paragraphs, headings, lists, tables, links, pictures and the caret to AccessKit (#488), tested headlessly; no NVDA, VoiceOver or Orca run yet | Blind and low-vision users; public-sector procurement | 3–6 | ui-parity.md | |
| 19 | RTF and ODT depth: notes, comments, revisions, sections, RTL | ~1,500 lines each in crates/formats |
Users exchanging with LibreOffice or older tools | 18–27 | file-format-parity.md | |
| 20 | Performance on large real-world documents unmeasured (500+ pages, many pictures) | Only the 188-page sample benchmark | Thesis and book authors | 10–20 | layout-parity.md | |
| 21 | Mail merge data sources: no Outlook/Contacts, Access or database sources, no email merge; CSV, typed lists (#247) and Excel/OpenDocument spreadsheets (#334) only | Select Recipients reads .csv/.tsv, .xlsx/.xlsm and .ods | Office administrators | 4–8 | target-app-parity.md | |
| 22 | Ecosystem: no VBA execution (macros preserved only), no Office add-ins, no cloud storage, no real-time co-authoring | .docm keeps macros (#172) |
Enterprise users with macro templates; teams | 40–80 + owner decisions | target-app-parity.md | |
| 23 | PDF Reflow (open a PDF as an editable document, Word for Windows) | Users who edit PDFs they receive | 30–50 | file-format-parity.md | ||
| 24 | Default shortcuts: ~135 of Word's ~250 (#330, #339, #343; Customize Keyboard #368, Customize Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar #379 landed) | ui-parity.md | Power users | 4–7 | ui-parity.md | |
| 25 | In-app AI assistant (Copilot-style draft, rewrite, summarize) | Chat PR #178 open | Users expecting Copilot | 15–30 + owner (provider) | target-app-parity.md | |
| 26 | Minor formats: MHT, Works/WordPerfect, saving Word 2003 XML | Word XML Document (Flat OPC) opens and saves, Word 2003 XML opens (#548) | Rare | 15–28 | file-format-parity.md | |
| 27 | View windows: Side by Side, Synchronous Scrolling, Arrange All, Switch Windows | parity-checklist.md (View 25/29) | Comparing documents | 3–5 | ui-parity.md | |
| 28 | Dictate | tools.dictate missing |
Dictation users | 8–15 + owner (speech model) | hardware-parity.md | |
| 29 | Equations: ink equations | #191 notes; long display equations wrap at operators (#326) | Maths-heavy documents | 2–3 | layout-parity.md |
Beta needs #1–#7 (~150–230 h with the stability and layout work they imply): they are the blocking gaps, and closing them lifts file formats, layout, stability and UI enough to take the full number from ~60% to ~75%. Everything else is depth on the way to full parity.
By kind
The same gaps grouped the way the parity documents are, for agents working in one area.
- Feature gaps: #2 (preserve), #5, #10, #12, #13, #15, #17, #21, #25, #27, #28, #29; Clipboard pane, Manage Styles, Group (open PRs exist for the first three — review and merge before re-implementing). Paste Special, Advanced Find, Column Selection, Style Inspector, custom table styles, and Draw Table and Eraser (#303) landed on 2026-10-10.
- UI/UX gaps: #7, #18, #24; crop handles on the canvas (rotation handle landed, #332); table column markers on the
ruler (#49; dragging borders and the resize handle on the page landed, #217); context menus for objects and tables; Linux title bar theming (#78); File ›
Options › Animation effects › Use system setting reads macOS (Reduce motion) and the Linux/BSD
desktops (
apps/wordcraft/src/animations.rs) but hasn't been tried on a Mac or in a real GNOME or KDE session yet. - File-format gaps: #1, #2, #5, #9, #14, #19, #23, #26; embedded fonts; glossary/building blocks.
- Hardware gaps: #6, #12, #28; scanner/Continuity Camera insert; KDE soft text (#140).
- Localization gaps: #8, #11, #16, #17; native-speaker review of every catalog (human).
- Stability and performance gaps: #3, #20.
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Table column and row borders and the resize handle drag on the page (#217); UI/UX gap narrowed to the ruler's column markers |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | UI/UX gaps list: the system's animation setting is now read on macOS and the Linux/BSD desktops; trying it on real machines remains |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Animation effects setting landed (File › Options › Accessibility); UI/UX gaps list: the system's animation setting isn't read on macOS or Linux/BSD yet |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Word XML Document (Flat OPC) and Word 2003 XML opening landed (#548); gap #26 narrowed to 15–28 h |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #13 narrowed: Insert › SmartArt with eight layouts, Text Pane and SmartArt Design landed (#497); 25–40 h left for charts |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | File › Options panes landed (#485); removed from the dialog-depth list |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #18: the document canvas describes its text, structure and caret to screen readers through AccessKit (#488); real screen-reader testing remains |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Compare / Combine Documents and AutoCorrect Options dialogs and the Restrict Editing pane landed (#412); removed from the dialog-depth list; duplicate #7 rows merged |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #10: WordArt text effects and Transform warps, connectors glued to shapes (#416) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #5 narrowed: content controls kept, shown and edited (#381); move tracking remains |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Insert › Chart landed (#409); gap #13 narrowed to editing Word's charts, more types and SmartArt, 35–55 h |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Line Numbers, Hyphenation, Language, Envelopes and Labels dialogs landed (#407); gap #7 at 30 dialogs, 16–24 h; duplicated #7 rows merged |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Caption, Index, Mark Index Entry, Custom Table of Contents, Source Manager and Create/Edit Source dialogs landed (#402); removed from the dialog-depth list |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Document grid landed (#391); removed from the East Asian gap |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Move tracking landed (#400); gap #5 narrowed to content controls, 5–8 h |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #4: note options per section (below text, end of section, restart each section/page) and the Footnote and Endnote dialog (#385) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #10: Shape Format › Text: text direction, align text and linked text boxes (#369) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #16: right-to-left tables (w:bidiVisual) and sections (w:bidi) laid out mirrored, with table.rtl and layout.sectionRtl (#362) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #4: columns balance before a continuous section break (#350) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #21: Excel (.xlsx/.xlsm) and OpenDocument (.ods) spreadsheets as recipient lists (#334); hours 6–10 → 4–8 |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Insert › Icons landed (#309); removed from the objects gap |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Preserve opaque custom XML data/properties through saves; gap #5 and readiness remain unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #24 narrowed: Customize Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar customization landed (#379); the default shortcuts remain |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #24 narrowed: Customize Keyboard landed (#368); Customize Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar remain |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Native saves protect existing temporary-name entries and originals on pre-replacement failure; synthetic macOS evidence, explicit durability/platform limits; readiness unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #24: Word's field keys (Alt+F9, Shift+F9, Ctrl+Shift+F9, Ctrl+F11, Ctrl+Shift+F11, F11, Shift+F11) (#339) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | #24: 125 of ~250 keyboard shortcuts after #330 |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Collapsed duplicate rows left by parallel merges |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | All 12 bibliography styles landed (#383); removed from References depth |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Formatting revisions landed (#41); gap #5 narrowed to move tracking and content controls, 8–12 h |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Omitted w:pPrDefault stays omitted across saves; explicit empty/default properties and later spacing edits remain writable. Synthetic preservation checks only; readiness estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #12 narrowed: Lasso Select, Add Pen, Ink to Shape and Ink Replay landed (#395) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Draw Table and Eraser landed (#303); removed from the feature-gap list |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Tabs and Borders and Shading dialogs landed (#320); removed from the dialog-depth list |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Columns, Symbol and Field dialogs landed (#321); removed from the dialog-depth list |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | #2 narrowed: charts and SmartArt drawn (#292), and with OLE objects kept on save (#319); group shapes landed (#267); ink and drawing canvases remain |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | #4: a document's own footnote separators and continuation notice are drawn and kept on save (#352) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | #4: long footnotes continue onto the next page (#352) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Define New Multilevel List and Track Changes Options dialogs landed (#328); removed from the dialog-depth list |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Enclose Characters landed (#297); removed from the East Asian typography gap |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Phonetic Guide (ruby) landed (#288): gap 17 narrowed |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | #10: wrap side (both sides, left, right, largest) for Square, Tight and Through objects (#354) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | #10: Tight and Through wrapping follow the object's outline (#354) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | #10: free rotation and flips for pictures, shapes and text boxes, with a rotation handle (#332); text boxes rotate their frame; their text stays upright |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | #10: Drawing Canvas landed (#344); in-canvas dragging of members remains |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | #29: long display equations wrap across lines (#326) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | #3: Windows lag on GPUs without a DirectX 12 driver fixed with an OpenGL fallback (#316) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | #6: desktop File › Print opens the system PDF viewer (#286) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Table Properties dialog landed (#44); removed from the dialog-depth list |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Merged main: landed features removed from the feature-gap list |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Beta note restated: full number back to the additive ~60% (method aligned with the standard, no new evidence) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | #491: vertical sections landed; vertical text removed from the East Asian gap |
| 2026-10-10 | major | First version, from the full re-measure: 29 ranked gaps with evidence, impact and hours |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | #307: Draw tab pens, eraser and Hide Ink landed; ink gap narrowed |