wordcraft/docs/ui-parity.md

UI parity with Microsoft Word

Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-18 · Change: trivial (dragging the vertical scrollbar names the page at the top of the window, #2551; previously trivial: Add Font imports every selected font file, #1789); previously trivial (File › Close keeps the window, #1712; previously trivial: the Spike: Ctrl+F3 and Ctrl+Shift+F3; previously trivial: Ctrl+wheel zoom no longer scrolls the document, #1743; previously trivial: a mouse drag on a table leaves the view where it is, #1738; previously trivial: numbered headings, #1793; previously trivial: Navigation Find exposes Results, #2096; previously trivial: the tab strip never draws tabs over Comments / Editing / Share, #2026; previously trivial: Columns on selected text, #2024; previously trivial: Different First Page headers reachable from page 1, #2826; previously trivial: a copied equation also goes in the clipboard's MathML formats, #1297; previously trivial: Read Mode keeps the keyboard, shows whole columns and keeps text clear of the page-turn bar, #1772); previously trivial: font list entries of tall-ascent fonts sit in their row, not cut off, #2570); previously trivial: Split Cells and Convert Text to Table dialogs follow Word's merged-cell limits and Initial column width, #2592; previously trivial: a new source's Tag is made like Word's, three letters of the author and two digits of the year with a number added when taken, and an edit keeps the Tag, #2094; previously trivial: Web Layout text fills the window width, #1876; previously trivial: Language dialog keeps inherited proofing language and no-proof choices (#2717)); previously trivial: comment balloons readable in the dark theme, #2045; previously trivial: Recently Used Fonts section at the top of the font list, #2068; previously trivial: web preferences kept between visits, #2132; previously trivial: dialog close control: a Windows-style box at the title bar's right end, the whole box clickable, red on hover, #1885); previously trivial (Modify Table Style formats every table style part, #714); previously trivial: a click on the ribbon chrome hands the keyboard to the page in the same frame, #1093 follow-up; previously trivial: Page Setup vertical alignment, #1320; previously trivial: the app opens on the Home tab every launch, as in Word; previously trivial: no document behind the Start screen, #1129; previously trivial: equation pictures share a few textures, #1002; previously trivial: selection bar in the left margin, #856; previously trivial: table column and row markers on the rulers, #700; previously trivial: table borders and the resize handle drag on the page, #217; previously 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).

Document title opens Rename Document; the account badge opens Options › General for user name and initials. Saved documents retain their format and refuse conflicting names; desktop renaming requires a filesystem that supports hard links. Web renaming changes the next download name. An unsaved document's name is only the name Save suggests: its Title property is left alone.

Dimension: ~65% (estimated), 59–92 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, Outlining (Outline view, #493); ribbon overflow (#43, #129). Draw tab: Select, Eraser, Pen, Pencil, Highlighter with colour and thickness (#307); Lasso (drag to move, Delete, recolour), Add Pen gallery (right-click to remove), Ink to Shape (lines, arrows, rectangles, ellipses, polygons), Ink Replay with play/pause/rewind/forward bar (#395); missing: Ink to Math. The app opens on Home every launch, as in Word: the active tab is not restored between runs, but going File and back to the editor returns to the tab that was showing, contextual tabs included. Home › Font: the font box lists Recently Used Fonts (the fonts applied from the box, the mini toolbar or the Font dialog, most recent first, ten at most, kept between runs) above All Fonts, as in Word; the sections show while nothing is typed (#2068)	Same plus Draw	85%	(Draw in features)
Keytips (Alt / F10)	Ribbon badges (#43) and numbered Quick Access Toolbar badges in the user's button order (#620; none while the toolbar is hidden, #1945); File › Options › Advanced › Display switch saved per user (ui.keytips); Alt leaves macOS Option typing alone	✅	85%	1–2
Mini-toolbar on selection	✅ (#43, two rows #535; Recently Used Fonts in its font box #2068)	✅	80%	1–2
Colour drop-downs: theme/standard colours, Recent Colors, More Colors… → Colors dialog (Standard honeycomb, Custom hue/saturation field with lightness, RGB/HSL and hex)	✅ Font Color (ribbon, mini toolbar, Font dialog), Shading, Page Color, Shape Fill/Outline/Glow, pen colours, dialog colour fields (#606); no Gradient or eyedropper	✅	90%	1
Quick Access Toolbar	AutoSave, then the user's commands (Save, Undo, Redo by default); add, remove and reorder from its … menu (common commands, More Commands…), right-click on any ribbon button, or Customize Ribbon; saved per user (#379, #376). Undo's ▾ list: recent steps newest first, hover highlights the steps a click undoes ("Undo 3 Actions"), one click undoes them all (#701; edit.undoTo, edit.undoHistory). Its menu ends with Hide Quick Access Toolbar, which takes it out of the title bar; Show Quick Access Toolbar on the ribbon's right-click menu, or in Customize Ribbon › Quick Access Toolbar, brings it back; kept between runs; ui.quickAccessToolbar for scripts (#1945). Not shown below the ribbon	customizable	92%	0.5
Customize Ribbon / Customize Keyboard	Customize Keyboard (#368): categories, a command's keys, press a combination to see which command uses it, Assign / Remove / Reset All; custom keys override built-ins, removed built-ins do nothing, saved per user; tools.customizeKeyboard for agents. Customize Ribbon (#379): show, hide and reorder tabs, custom tabs and custom groups (on any tab) holding any commands, rename, remove, Reset; right-click on the ribbon; saved per user; tools.customizeRibbon for agents. Built-in tabs can't be renamed; no import/export file	✅	85%	1–2
Keyboard shortcuts	137 commands bound in CommandSpec::key, 156 key combinations (measured on Linux/Windows); styles, spacing, symbols, fields, views, mail merge (#330); field keys Alt+F9, Shift+F9, Ctrl+Shift+F9, Ctrl+F11, Ctrl+Shift+F11, F11, Shift+F11 (#339); Alt+Shift+arrows (move paragraphs, promote/demote), Shift+F5 Go Back and Alt+X (#343); Outline view: Alt+Shift+Plus/Minus expand/collapse, Alt+Shift+1–9 and Alt+Shift+A Show Level (#493). Missing: en dash on the numeric keypad	~250 default shortcuts	~70%	2–4
Modal dialogs	54 (Dialog enum: Font, Enclose Characters, Paragraph, Tabs, Borders and Shading, Find, Go To, Insert Table, Table Properties, Page Setup, Link, Bookmark, Word Count, Zoom, Watermark, New Style, Modify Style, Manage Styles, Table Style (every part: font, borders, shading, cell alignment, #714), Commands, Icons, Templates and Add-ins, Organizer, Compare and Combine, AutoCorrect Options, Paste Special, About, Save Changes, Password, Encrypt with Password, Define New Multilevel List, Track Changes Options; Columns, Symbol with Special Characters, Field (#321); Field code (#339); mail merge Recipients, Insert Merge Field, Find Recipient, Rules, Match Fields, Check for Errors; Caption with New Label and Numbering, Index, Mark Index Entry, Custom Table of Contents with Options and TOC styles, Source Manager, Create/Edit Source (#402); Line Numbers, Hyphenation with Manual Hyphenation, Language, Envelopes, Labels (#407)) plus panes and menus for the rest	~100 (Options panes…)	~45%	11–19
Task panes (Navigation, Styles, Comments, Reviewing, Format Picture/Shape, Thesaurus, Accessibility, Clipboard, Selection)	Navigation, Styles, Comments (balloons and cards read in both themes, #2045), Thesaurus, Restrict Editing, Accessibility (grouped findings, jump-to, fixes) and Alt Text (#386), Read Aloud, Zotero; Style Inspector (#236); Clipboard pane (#264) open	all	70%	4–6
Keyboard shortcuts	137 commands bound in CommandSpec::key, 156 key combinations (measured on Linux/Windows); styles, spacing, symbols, fields, views, mail merge (#330); field keys Alt+F9, Shift+F9, Ctrl+Shift+F9, Ctrl+F11, Ctrl+Shift+F11, F11, Shift+F11 (#339); Alt+Shift+arrows (move paragraphs, promote/demote), Shift+F5 Go Back and Alt+X (#343); Outline view: Alt+Shift+Plus/Minus expand/collapse, Alt+Shift+1–9 and Alt+Shift+A Show Level (#493); Alt+Q to "Tell me" command search (#819, not on macOS). Missing: en dash on the numeric keypad	~250 default shortcuts	~70%	2–4
Modal dialogs	54 (Dialog enum: Font, Enclose Characters, Paragraph, Tabs, Borders and Shading, Find, Go To, Insert Table, Table Properties, Page Setup, Link, Bookmark, Word Count, Zoom, Watermark, New Style, Modify Style, Manage Styles, Table Style, Commands, Icons, Templates and Add-ins, Organizer, Compare and Combine, AutoCorrect Options, Paste Special, About, Save Changes, Password, Encrypt with Password, Define New Multilevel List, Track Changes Options; Columns, Symbol with Special Characters, Field (#321); Field code (#339); mail merge Recipients, Insert Merge Field, Find Recipient, Rules, Match Fields, Check for Errors; Caption with New Label and Numbering, Index, Mark Index Entry, Custom Table of Contents with Options and TOC styles, Source Manager, Create/Edit Source (#402); Line Numbers, Hyphenation with Manual Hyphenation, Language, Envelopes, Labels (#407)) plus panes and menus for the rest	~100 (Options panes…)	~45%	11–19
Modal dialogs	55 (Dialog enum: Font, Enclose Characters, Paragraph, Tabs, Borders and Shading, Find, Go To, Insert Table, Table Properties, Page Setup, Link, Bookmark, Word Count, Zoom, Watermark, New Style, Modify Style, Manage Styles, Table Style, Commands, Icons, Templates and Add-ins, Organizer, Compare and Combine, AutoCorrect Options, Paste Special, About, Save Changes, Password, Encrypt with Password, Define New Multilevel List, Track Changes Options; Columns, Symbol with Special Characters, Field (#321); Field code (#339); mail merge Recipients, Insert Merge Field, Find Recipient, Rules, Match Fields, Check for Errors; Caption with New Label and Numbering, Index, Mark Index Entry, Custom Table of Contents with Options and TOC styles, Source Manager, Create/Edit Source (#402); Cross-reference (#916); Line Numbers, Hyphenation with Manual Hyphenation, Language, Envelopes, Labels (#407); Page Setup has a Paper size list and custom width and height, opened from Layout › Size › More Paper Sizes… (#1433)) plus panes and menus for the rest	~100 (Options panes…)	~45%	11–19
Keyboard shortcuts	152 commands bound in CommandSpec::key, 172 key combinations (counted from the registry on Linux, 2026-10-13); styles, spacing, symbols, fields, views, mail merge (#330); field keys Alt+F9, Shift+F9, Ctrl+Shift+F9, Ctrl+F11, Ctrl+Shift+F11, Shift+F11 (#339), Next Field on Alt+F1 and Alt+Shift+F1 (Word's other keys for it) since F11 went to full screen (#980; GNOME and KDE may keep Alt+F1 for their own overview or application menu, and then Next Field has no key there; Previous Field keeps Shift+F11); Alt+Shift+arrows (move paragraphs, promote/demote), Shift+F5 Go Back and Alt+X (#343); Outline view: Alt+Shift+Plus/Minus expand/collapse, Alt+Shift+1–9 and Alt+Shift+A Show Level (#493); Alt+Q to "Tell me" command search (#819, not on macOS). Missing: en dash on the numeric keypad	~250 default shortcuts	~70%	2–4
Keyboard shortcuts	152 commands bound in CommandSpec::key, 172 key combinations (counted from the registry on Linux, 2026-10-13); styles, spacing, symbols, fields, views, mail merge (#330); field keys Alt+F9, Shift+F9, Ctrl+Shift+F9, Ctrl+F11, Ctrl+Shift+F11, Shift+F11 (#339), Next Field on Alt+F1 and Alt+Shift+F1 (Word's other keys for it) since F11 went to full screen (#980; GNOME and KDE may keep Alt+F1 for their own overview or application menu, and then Next Field has no key there; Previous Field keeps Shift+F11); Alt+Shift+arrows (move paragraphs, promote/demote), Shift+F5 Go Back and Alt+X (#343); Outline view: Alt+Shift+Plus/Minus expand/collapse, Alt+Shift+1–9 and Alt+Shift+A Show Level (#493); Alt+Q to "Tell me" command search (#819, not on macOS); on macOS, Word for Mac's own keys: ⌘⇧S Save As, ⌘⌥E Insert Endnote, ⌘⌥A New Comment, ⌃H Replace, ⌘⌥R collapse the ribbon. The Spike: Ctrl+F3 cuts to it, Ctrl+Shift+F3 inserts it and empties it (⌘F3, ⌘⇧F3 on macOS). Missing: en dash on the numeric keypad Insert Hyperlink has Word's Link to: Existing File or Web Page / Place in This Document (top of the document, headings, bookmarks) (#1234).	~250 default shortcuts	~70%	2–4
Modal dialogs	59 (Dialog enum: Discard Recovery, Font, Enclose Characters, Paragraph, Tabs, Borders and Shading, Find, Go To, Insert Table, Table Properties, Page Setup, Link, Bookmark, Word Count, Zoom, Watermark, New Style, Modify Style, Manage Styles, Table Style, Commands, Icons, Templates and Add-ins, Organizer, Compare and Combine, AutoCorrect Options, Paste Special, About, Save Changes, Password, Encrypt with Password, Define New Multilevel List, Track Changes Options; Columns, Symbol with Special Characters, Field (#321); Field code (#339); mail merge Recipients, Insert Merge Field, Find Recipient, Rules, Match Fields, Check for Errors; Caption with New Label and Numbering, Index, Mark Index Entry, Custom Table of Contents with Options and TOC styles, Source Manager, Create/Edit Source (#402); Cross-reference (#916); Drop Cap with Position, Font, Lines to drop and Distance from text, opened from Insert › Drop Cap › Drop Cap Options… (#2601); Line Numbers, Hyphenation with Manual Hyphenation, Language, Envelopes, Labels (#407); Page Setup has a Paper size list and custom width and height, opened from Layout › Size › More Paper Sizes… (#1433); every dialog's close control is a box at the title bar's right end, the full title-bar height and 1.6× as wide, all of it clickable, red with a white ✕ on hover as a Windows caption button (#1885); Split Cells (columns, rows, merge before split; defaults follow the selection as in Word: twice its columns, its rows, Merge offered for several cells or one merged across columns; a merged cell splits into 1 to its height rows, its height or 1 × 1 cutting it back into rows, more refused with Word's message; parts split across columns are equal and other rows keep their grid lines) and Convert Text to Table (live column count, read-only rows; Initial column width Auto or 0 to 22 in, AutoFit to contents/window; Paragraphs/Commas/Tabs/Other "-" separators) (#2592)) plus panes and menus for the rest	~100 (Options panes…)	~45%	11–19
Task panes (Navigation, Styles, Comments, Reviewing, Format Picture/Shape, Thesaurus, Accessibility, Clipboard, Selection)	Navigation (long headings truncate with an ellipsis instead of expanding the pane, #759), Styles, Comments (balloons and cards read in both themes, #2045), Thesaurus, Restrict Editing, Accessibility (grouped findings, jump-to, fixes) and Alt Text (#386), Read Aloud, Zotero; Style Inspector (#236); Clipboard pane (#264) open	all	70%	4–6
Context menus (right-click)	text, spelling suggestions, fields (Update Field, Edit Field…, Toggle Field Codes, #339; Update Field on a table of contents entry updates the table, #1197, and after a save and reopen, #2182); right-click selects a picture, shape or text box and offers Wrap Text (styles, Move with Text / Fix Position on Page, #513); tables, the items following the selection as in Word (Insert, Delete › Cells, Columns, Rows or Table whatever is selected (#1198), Merge and Split Cells, Distribute, AutoFit, Text Direction, Insert Caption…, Table Properties…; no Border Styles yet)	rich per context	65%	2–4
Backstage (Home, New, Open, Info, Save As, Print, Share, Export, Options)	Home and New separate (#254), Info properties kept (#268), Options in Word's panes with working settings (#485), Print page with preview, page range and copies (#641); launched with nothing to open, the app starts on Home (the Start screen: Blank document, templates, Recent; no document is open until one is picked or opened, so Esc or Back shows an empty window with the ribbon greyed out but for Help, #1129), with File › Options › General › Start-up to turn it off (#766); Info › Inspect Document finds and removes hidden text by its effective formatting (direct, character or paragraph style) in every story: body, headers, footers, notes, comments and text boxes, and lists what it couldn't reach (#1344); File › Close (Mod+W, Mod+F4) closes the document and keeps the window, showing no page, as Word does; the window's close button quits (#1712)		68%	4–6
Rulers: indents, tabs, margins, table columns	indents draggable (one undo, #62); tab stops: corner selector (Left/Center/Right/Decimal/Bar), click to set, drag to move, drag off to clear, per-kind markers, Alt skips the snap, one undo step per gesture, double-click opens the Tabs dialog (#320); table column and row markers drag their borders (one undo) and in a cell the indents are measured from it (#700); the numbers thin out as the page shrinks on screen (every 1, 2, 4… units, never closer than 30 px, the small ticks never closer than 4 px, the text keeps its size), give way to an indent, tab or column marker on them, and the margins get ticks only; both rulers span the caret's page at its own scale in every layout (one column, One Page, Multiple Pages) and follow the caret to another page (#1878)	✅	92%	1
On-canvas objects: select, drag, resize handles, nudge	✅ tested (#228); a picture or shape behind text can be dragged across the overlapping text (body and header/footer), whether or not it was selected first, while a click without movement still edits that text	✅	75%	—
On-canvas objects: select, drag, Ctrl+drag to copy, resize handles, nudge	✅ tested (#228, #1014)	✅	75%	—
Rotation handle, crop handles on canvas, alignment guides, smart guides	rotation handle (Shift: 15° steps), turned frames resize along their axes (#332); crop handles: Picture Format › Crop puts the picture in crop mode, black crop handles trim a side (a corner, two) keeping the scale and the visible part in place, the cropped-away part shows dimmed, Esc/Enter/a click outside/Crop again keep the crop, one undo step per drag (unturned pictures; no Crop to Shape, Aspect Ratio or Fill/Fit); alignment guides, our own design: a moved picture, shape or text box snaps its left, centre or right (top, middle or bottom) to the page's edges and centre, the margins and the other floating objects on the page within 6 screen points, x and y independently, turned objects by their rotated bounds, with a thin line across the page for each guide while dragging; Alt moves freely; File › Options › Advanced › Editing (ui.alignmentGuides) turns them off. Smart guides missing	Word for Mac 16.113.4 shows no guide lines and snaps inconsistently (to the page's left edge, not its top, right or bottom; Word check K); Word for Windows' guides not observed	75%	1–2
Tables on the page: drag column and row borders, resize handle past the bottom-right corner; select columns, rows and cells; "+" insert buttons; move handle	✅ resize cursors, dashed guide, one undo step per drag, selection kept; Shift moves one column; Esc cancels (#217); Ctrl shares the change among the columns on the right, the left edge moves a left-aligned table's indent (a centred or right-aligned one keeps its alignment), a border of cells selected across moves only in their rows, Alt shows the column widths on the ruler (#711); double-click a column border to AutoFit it (a nested table's within the cell around it, #971); selection arrows above a column, left of a row and along a cell's left edge (a drag selects more; the cells are shaded and a column is edited cell by cell); "+" left of a row border and above a column border; move handle past the top-left corner (a click selects the table, a drag floats it where it's dropped); an ordinary drag, Shift+arrows or Shift+click from one cell into another select the rectangle of whole cells between them, and into or out of a table whole rows, their cells shaded whole (#971). Missing: a single selected cell's border; The Cell Size Height and Width boxes set every selected row and column (#1242).	✅	95%	1
Selection: word/sentence/paragraph clicks, dragging after a double-click/triple-click/Ctrl+click extends by whole words/paragraphs/sentences (#549), Shift extend, F8 extend mode, column (Alt+drag, #237)	✅	✅	90%	1
Zoom: Ctrl+scroll (only zooms; a coast or notch still gliding stops, #1743), pinch (#179), zoom buttons (#232), pages side by side when zoomed out (#251), still one per row after One Page or Page Width (#768)	✅	✅	85%	—
Selection: word/sentence/paragraph clicks, dragging after a double-click/triple-click/Ctrl+click extends by whole words/paragraphs/sentences (#549), Shift extend, F8 extend mode, column (Alt+drag, #237), selection bar in the left margin (click a line, double-click a paragraph, triple-click or Ctrl+click everything, drag by lines, Shift+click extends; #856)	✅ Missing: the selection bar in the right margin for right-to-left paragraphs, beside table rows, and Word's right-pointing arrow cursor (egui has none; the plain arrow shows)	✅	92%	1
Headers and footers on the page: double-click the top or bottom margin to edit them, the body to leave	✅ in Print Layout, also on a page with none yet: the header or footer that page shows is created (first page, even page or the default) and the caret put in it; one left empty is taken away again on leaving and is never saved (#960). Making one is an undo step, refused in a protected document. On a later section's page with no header anywhere it goes in the first section and shows on every section linked to it, as Word links to the previous section by default. With Different First Page (or Odd & Even) on, a double-click goes into the header that page shows even from another header being edited, and Insert › Header/Footer and Edit Header with the caret on page 1 use page 1's own (#2826). Web Layout, Draft and Read Mode show no margins and leave it alone	✅	95%	0.5
Zoom: Ctrl+scroll (only zooms; a coast or notch still gliding stops, #1743), pinch (#179), zoom buttons (#232), pages side by side when zoomed out (#251)	✅	✅	85%	—
Touchpad smooth/inertial scroll	✅ (#252)	✅	90%	—
Web Layout width	Text wraps to the whole work area (window width at the current zoom, 144–20,000 pt) and re-wraps once a window resize has settled (not on every frame of a drag) or at once on a zoom, keeping the caret in view; the sheet runs edge to edge with no centred page. Draft and Outline keep their 800 pt column; headless sessions keep 800 pt (#1876)	text across the window	95%	—
Scrollbar drag page tip	✅ while the vertical scrollbar is dragged, a tip beside the pointer names the page at the top of the window in the status bar's words ("Page 7 of 10") (#2551, canvas::tests::dragging_the_scrollbar_names_the_page_at_the_top); its look and wording not yet compared with Word's	not compared	70%	0.5
Web and Draft Layout rendering	Very long pages render only visible full-resolution raster tiles instead of shrinking one huge texture to the GPU size limit; nearby tiles are cached for scrolling	sharp document text	95%	—
Reading Mode	Existing Read Mode ribbon button opens a read-only, viewport-column layout with animated horizontal paging, transient width/text/spacing controls, heading navigation (Navigation pane) and resize anchoring; print/export layout unchanged. The arrows, Page Up/Down and Escape work straight after entering it; only whole columns show, centred, at any width, text size or window size; the columns end above the page-turn bar (#1772)	reading-optimized view and navigation	75%	1–2
Status bar (page x of y, words, language, view buttons, zoom slider)	✅ (the language is the caret's, by name; a click sets the proofing language, or opens Set Proofing Language… for any other)	✅	85%	—
Caret motion: keys and typing glide the caret to its new place (100 ms, cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0, 1)), the blink fades (530 ms on and off, 100 ms fades); clicks and scripted moves don't glide. File › Options › Advanced › Animation (ui.caretAnimation) turns it off. The caret is black or white by contrast with what lies under it (paper, page colour, dark page, shading, highlight), never by the UI theme (#299)	✅ as measured from Word for Windows (caret_glide.rs); zoom levels other than 100%, modifier keys and off-screen moves not measured	✅ on Windows; Word for Mac not measured	90%	1–2
Interface themes (light, dark, system #249, follows OS changes live #311), dark page separate from the interface theme (#194, #312); on a dark page highlights and character shading are dimmed, keeping their hue, so the text on them stays readable; coloured text below 4.5:1 on them is drawn white, and underlines and strikethroughs follow the same rule (#1252); Interface Theme as a searchable View command (light/dark/system, toggle without a value, #1861)	✅	✅	90%	—
Interface size (File › Options › General: Auto, which keeps the system display scale and shows the size it draws at, or an absolute 75–300 %, so "100%" is one screen pixel per point; ui.interfaceSize) (#475, #822). A size from before #822 (on top of the display scale) becomes the absolute size it drew at. On the web the browser's zoom is part of the display scale, so a chosen size cancels browser zoom (Ctrl+plus/minus no longer resize the interface); Auto follows it	✅	system display scaling only	100%	—
Animation effects (File › Options › Accessibility: Use system setting, On, Off; ui.animations). Off: a wheel notch scrolls at once; Ctrl+wheel zooms in whole steps, each drawn finished in its own frame (a notch at once; touchpad pinches and high-resolution wheels in steps of about 10% rather than gliding); menus, buttons and the scroll to the caret neither fade nor glide	✅ "Use system setting" reads Windows (Animation effects), macOS (Reduce motion), the Linux/BSD desktops (settings portal: the cross-desktop reduced-motion preference, GNOME's switch, KDE's animation speed; the GTK and KDE settings files where no portal answers) and browsers (prefers-reduced-motion), and follows a change while running. Run on Windows and against a stand-in portal on Linux; not yet tried on a Mac or a real GNOME or KDE session	not compared	90%	0.5–1
Full screen (#980): View › Window › Full Screen (view.fullScreen), F11 (⌃⌘F on macOS) toggles OS-level full screen, Escape leaves it, leaving gives back the earlier window size; the window manager's or macOS's own full screen keeps it in step. In the browser it's off (the browser's own F11)	✅	Word for Mac: View › Enter Full Screen (⌃⌘F); Word for Windows: Full Screen Mode hides the ribbon only	100%	—
File dialogs (Open, Save As, Export, Insert Picture)	system dialog, without blocking the window (#94), its Save As type list naming every format with the document's own first (#1399); Linux/BSD without a file chooser portal or zenity: WordCraft's own browser, also File › Open › Browse in WordCraft… (#576)	system dialog	95%	—
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; the document canvas describes paragraphs, headings (level), list items, tables, links, pictures (alt text) and the caret and selection, for the pages on screen (#488); Windows Magnifier follows the caret, also onto an empty line after Enter or Shift+Enter (#1119); not yet tried with real screen readers	full	50%	5–8
Right-to-left (mirrored) interface	❌	✅ (Arabic, Hebrew Word)	0%	in localization

Save Changes exposes the document-specific question as an alert-dialog name and the loss warning plus any failed-save explanation as its description (#1015). Full-app AccessKit coverage checks the focused choice's dialog ancestry, all three choices and cancellation. This is accessibility-tree evidence; native Windows screen-reader and spoken VoiceOver verification remain pending. Visual layout, wording and save policy are unchanged.

The Language dialog reads effective character formatting, including document defaults, paragraph styles and character styles. Accepting it unchanged keeps inherited language and no-proof choices (#2717); explicit direct formatting still takes precedence. Other proofing and Windows-specific reports remain separate.

Find navigation (#2096)

Find selects the Results tab, including when it prefills selected text. Editing the search query also reveals matching or empty results. Manual Headings and Pages navigation remains available until the next search action.

Footnote and endnote editing keeps body and note text at normal opacity, on light and dark pages. Headers and footers still dim outside their editing context (#2545).

Revision history

Date	Change	Summary
2026-10-16	trivial	Dragging the vertical scrollbar shows a tip beside the pointer with the page at the top of the window ("Page 7 of 10"); nothing said where the drag would land (#2551)
2026-10-15	trivial	File › Close (Mod+W, Mod+F4) closes the document and keeps the window, showing no page, as Word does (it quit the whole app); the window's close button still asks to save and quits (#1712)
2026-10-16	trivial	Save Changes exposes an alert-dialog role, the document-specific question and loss/failure context to accessibility; full-app focus/ancestry regression. Native screen-reader verification remains pending.
2026-10-16	trivial	Dragging the vertical scrollbar shows a tip beside the pointer with the page at the top of the window ("Page 7 of 10"); nothing said where the drag would land (#2551)
2026-10-15	trivial	Dialogs, the Read Aloud player and the file browser: the close control is a box at the title bar's right end, the full title-bar height and 1.6× as wide, all of it clickable; red with a white ✕ while the pointer is over it, darker red pressed, in both themes; Escape as before (#1885)
2026-10-15	trivial	Font box (ribbon and mini toolbar): a Recently Used Fonts section at the top of the list holds the fonts applied from the box, the mini toolbar or the Font dialog, most recent first, once each, ten at most, kept between runs in ui.json; All Fonts follows; the sections show while nothing is typed and a query lists its matches only; Up/Down walk the recent entries then the list, Enter applies the highlighted one; a recent font no longer installed stays listed (#2068)
2026-10-16	trivial	Web Layout text fills the window width and re-wraps once a resize settles or at once on a zoom, instead of a fixed 800 pt column; Draft and Outline keep their 800 pt column (#1876)
2026-10-16	trivial	Update Field is offered on a table of contents after it was saved and reopened (a range field then), including at its first and last character; repeated save and update no longer adds a blank line (#2182; the flow in that report already worked since #1197)
2026-10-18	trivial	Different First Page: double-clicking page 1's header while editing another one goes into page 1's own; Insert › Header/Footer/Page Number and Edit Header/Footer use the header the caret's page shows (first, even or default) instead of always the default (#2826)
2026-10-15	trivial	Track Changes Options › Moves: Moved from and Moved to rows (mark and colour; green double strikethrough and double underline by default, as in Word for Mac, which has no Track moves checkbox). review.trackingOptions {"moveFromMark", "moveFromColor", "moveToMark", "moveToColor"}, saved per user; "trackMoves" sets the document's setting. Mark lists in Word for Mac's order; Deletions and Moved from gain (none), Bold, Italic and Double underline; moved text marked (none) is plain text
2026-10-17	trivial	Language dialog keeps inherited proofing language and no-proof choices (#2717); readiness estimates unchanged
2026-10-16	trivial	Create Source: automatic Tag like Word's (Smi20, Kim001); Edit Source keeps the Tag and citations show the new Author and Year (#2094; Word for Mac 16.113.4, user-checked)
2026-10-18	trivial	Split Cells merged-cell limits and equal parts, Convert Text to Table Initial column width, both from the Word check (#2592)
2026-10-16	trivial	Split Cells and Convert Text to Table dialogs (#2592): 58 modal dialogs
2026-10-16	trivial	Font list: each entry's capitals are centred in its row, so a font with a very tall ascent (Amiri, Amiri Quran) no longer sits low or is cut in half, and the list reads as one even list (#2570)
2026-10-16	trivial	Read Mode keeps the keyboard on entering, shows only whole columns, centred, and ends them above the page-turn bar (#1772)
2026-10-16	trivial	Comment and revision balloons are readable in the dark theme: the card, the markup area, the author stripes and the leader lines come from theme tokens, and the text reaches 4.5:1 (#2045)
2026-10-15	trivial	Layout › Columns works on the selected text, as in Word: section breaks around it, the rest of the document unchanged; More Columns… adds "Selected text" to Apply to and picks it when text is selected (#2024)
2026-10-15	trivial	Navigation Find and query edits expose Results (#2096)
2026-10-15	trivial	AutoCorrect Options › Exceptions: "Automatically add words to list" switches for First Letter and INitial CAps (#1857)
2026-10-16	trivial	Multilevel List heading presets: every selected paragraph takes the first level (Heading 1), as Word for Mac does; headings outside the selection keep their styles and levels (#1793)
2026-10-16	trivial	Multilevel List heading presets: selected paragraphs already in a Heading style keep their style and level, every other selected paragraph becomes Heading 1, as Word for Mac does (#1793)
2026-10-15	trivial	Multilevel List gallery: four lists linked to Heading 1–9 (1 / 1.1 / 1.1.1; Article I. / Section 1.01 / (a); I. / A. / 1.; Chapter 1), list.multilevelPreset; headings keep their styles and new headings are numbered (#1793). Style gallery previews don't show the numbers yet
2026-10-16	trivial	A mouse drag that edits a table (column or row border, move handle) leaves the view where it is; typing still follows the caret (#1738)
2026-10-16	trivial	Ctrl/⌘+wheel only zooms: a coast or wheel notch still gliding stops instead of scrolling the page on top of the zoom (#1743)
2026-10-16	trivial	The Spike: Ctrl+F3 (⌘F3 on macOS) cuts the selection to the end of the Spike, Ctrl+Shift+F3 (⌘⇧F3) inserts everything collected and empties it; it is the AutoText entry "Spike", so Quick Parts inserts it without emptying it. Per session, not saved between launches
2026-10-15	trivial	Table Layout › Cell Margins opens with current table defaults; unchanged margins and per-cell overrides stay intact until edits are confirmed (#1960)
2026-10-15	trivial	Paste (Ctrl+V, Home › Paste) of plain text from another program: every pasted line takes the formatting of the paragraph it lands in, as with Keep Text Only, so a right-to-left paragraph stays right-to-left after the first line. The lines after the first had default formatting
2026-10-14	trivial	Add Font… takes several files at once (desktop dialog and web picker are multi-select); each is added, a bad file is reported and skipped, at most 2,000 per pick (the status line counts the skipped); on the web each font is added and reported on its own, with no single summary line; the built-in browser still picks one file (#1789)
2026-10-16	trivial	Background control keyboard/text input reaches the focused widget without activating the OS window; document edits, Find, Save Changes cancellation, protection and no-replay controls (#2420)
2026-10-15	trivial	Quick Access Toolbar: Hide Quick Access Toolbar at the end of its menu; Show Quick Access Toolbar on the ribbon's right-click menu and in Customize Ribbon › Quick Access Toolbar; kept between runs; ui.quickAccessToolbar (#1945)
2026-10-15	trivial	Rulers: numbers thin out with the zoom (every 1, 2, 4… units, at least 30 px apart; ticks at least 4 px apart), give way to the indent, tab and column markers, margins get ticks only; both rulers span the caret's page in every layout and follow the caret (#1878); Rulers 90% → 92%
2026-10-15	trivial	Spelling as you type: the word being typed has no red squiggle until the caret leaves it, by a key or a click; misspelled words already there keep theirs (#1552)
2026-10-15	trivial	Text Highlight Color: No Color becomes the Highlight button's choice, as in Word, so the next click on the button removes highlighting instead of applying the colour picked before; the ribbon and the mini toolbar share one menu (#2105)
2026-10-16	trivial	Body and active note text keep normal opacity while editing footnotes or endnotes (#2545); header/footer dimming is unchanged
2026-10-13	trivial	New/Modify Table Style: No Border on a part that inherits its lines hides them; emptying the font box makes the part's font inherited again (#1288)
2026-10-17	minor	Insert › Drop Cap is a menu (None, Dropped, In margin, Drop Cap Options…) with a Drop Cap dialog (position, font, lines 1–10, distance 0–22 in), #2601; Modal dialogs 56 → 57
2026-10-14	trivial	Tab stops edited on the ruler: corner kind selector, click to set, drag to move or off to clear, per-kind markers mirrored for RTL; each gesture one para.tabs call and one undo step; Rulers 85% → 90%
2026-10-12	trivial	Tables on the page: one selected cell (Select Cell, or a click along its left edge) is a cell selection when its border is dragged: the border moves in its row only (#962)
2026-10-12	minor	Default keyboard shortcuts expanded to 140 commands on macOS (169 combinations) and 158 on Linux/Windows (188 combinations): Style Inspector (Shift+F1), Macros (Alt+F8), Strikethrough (Mod+Shift+X), Find Next (Shift+F4), Copy/Paste Insert keys (Mod+Insert, Shift+Insert), Go Back (Mod+Alt+Z), File Open/Save/Save As/Print (Mod+Alt+F2, Alt+Shift+F2, Alt+F2, Mod+Alt+I), Field navigation (Alt+F1, Alt+Shift+F1), Outline show first line (Alt+Shift+L), Next Footnote (Alt+Shift+>), Link to Previous (Alt+Shift+R), AutoText (Alt+F3), Spelling on Mac (Mod+Alt+L)
2026-10-13	trivial	Web/Draft Layout long-page blur fixed using visible full-resolution raster tiles, tested against a 440-paragraph document
2026-10-14	trivial	A click on the ribbon's chrome that isn't a command button (a Styles gallery tile, a tab name, empty ribbon space, a View check box, a status-bar item) hands the keyboard to the page in the same frame, as a ribbon command button does: typing right after the click reaches the document instead of being swallowed (#1093 follow-up)
2026-10-13	trivial	Page Setup: a Vertical alignment box (Top, Center, Justified, Bottom), applied on OK only if changed (#1320)
2026-10-13	trivial	macOS shortcuts as in Word for Mac: ⌘⇧S Save As (Apply Styles keeps Ctrl+Shift+S elsewhere), ⌘⌥E Insert Endnote (macOS takes ⌘⌥D for the Dock), ⌘⌥A New Comment, ⌃H Replace, ⌘⌥R collapse the ribbon
2026-10-13	trivial	On-canvas objects: regression-tested dragging Behind Text pictures and shapes across overlapping text (body and header/footer), selected or not, without stealing ordinary text clicks; In Front of Text covered too
2026-10-13	trivial	Insert Hyperlink: Link to › Place in This Document (#1234)
2026-10-13	trivial	Insert › Bookmark as in Word (#1236): the name box over the list, Add / Delete / Go To beside them, Sort by Name or Location, Hidden bookmarks; it opens on the bookmark around the caret, Add (Enter) closes it, Delete and Go To keep it open (Cancel then reads Close), and Go To selects the bookmark's text, as Find and Replace › Go To does (Ctrl+click on a link to a bookmark only puts the caret at its start, as in Word). Not yet: with the caret in no bookmark Word offers the one added last; here the name box starts empty
2026-10-13	trivial	Table context menu: Delete is a submenu with Delete Cells, Columns, Rows and Table whatever is selected, so the caret in a cell is enough to delete the table (#1198)
2026-10-12	trivial	Track Changes Options › Comments: "In the margin" (default, as in Word) or "Only for the selected text", an option Word doesn't have (#1055). In the second mode the margin column is gone and only the comment under the caret, or the clicked one, floats beside the page (over its edge in a narrow window); comment ranges stay shaded in the text. review.trackingOptions {"commentDisplay": "margin"|"selected"}
2026-10-12	trivial	On-canvas objects: Ctrl+drag copies a picture, shape or text box (arrange.copyTo, #1014)
2026-10-12	trivial	Cross-reference dialog: reference type (heading, bookmark, equation, figure, table), what to insert and the item; the ribbon button opened nothing before (#916); modal dialog count 55
2026-10-12	trivial	Document title opens Rename Document; the account badge opens Options › General for user name and initials.
2026-10-13	trivial	Magnifiers: a line's end mark (paragraph mark or line break) takes room in what the canvas tells assistive technology, so Windows Magnifier, which places the caret by the character after it, follows the caret onto an empty line after Enter or Shift+Enter instead of staying on the line above (#1119)
2026-10-14	trivial	Save Changes prompt: Save takes focus from the page too, so after typing the arrow keys, Tab and Enter answer it instead of moving the caret behind it (#1597)
2026-10-14	trivial	Copy and Cut put HTML beside the text on the system clipboard for every selection, not only one holding an equation, so pasting into a browser, mail client or another word processor keeps bold, italic, fonts and sizes (desktop, through arboard; Wayland without data-control and the web: text only) (#1523)
2026-10-15	trivial	Web: preferences (theme, interface size, editing options…) are kept in the browser's localStorage between visits, as the desktop app keeps ui.json; before, a reload brought back light mode and the defaults (#2132)
2026-10-14	trivial	The app opens on the Home tab every launch, as in Word: the active ribbon tab is no longer restored from ui.json between runs. Going File and back to the editor still returns to the tab that was showing, contextual tabs included
2026-10-13	trivial	The caret is black or white by contrast with the paper, page colour, dark page, shading or highlight under it (#299)
2026-10-13	trivial	Clicks on ribbon and status-bar chrome that run no command button (Styles and style-set gallery tiles, tab names, empty ribbon space, View check boxes, the status bar's view buttons and language menu) no longer take keyboard focus from the page: the caret stays and typing continues, as in Word; text fields such as the font size box still take focus. Tabs, gallery tiles and the status bar's view buttons report their name and state to screen readers (#1093)
2026-10-13	trivial	Interface size: a chosen size is absolute ("100%" is one screen pixel per point, even where the system reports 200 % under a bare window manager) and the new default, Auto, keeps the display scale and shows the size it draws at; 75–300 %; an old saved size becomes the size it drew at; on the web a chosen size cancels browser zoom, Auto follows it (#822)
2026-10-13	trivial	Copy and Cut of a selection holding an equation put HTML with the equation as MathML on the system clipboard beside the text (desktop, through arboard), as MathML in HTML on the clipboard (Word/LibreOffice paste not yet verified; OMML is #1297) (#816). Only copies containing an equation get HTML. Web: text only
2026-10-16	trivial	Copy and Cut of one equation alone also put its MathML in the clipboard formats Word reads first when it pastes math: "MathML" and "MathML Presentation" on Windows, public.mathml.presentation and public.mathml on macOS (#1297). A copy with text around the equation doesn't offer them, so pasting keeps the text. The paste into Word is not yet verified. Linux, BSD and web: unchanged
2026-10-12	trivial	New/Modify Table Style: Apply formatting to any of the 13 table style parts (whole table, header/total row, first/last column, odd/even row and column bands, four corner cells), each with font, size, bold, italic, underline, colour, fill, borders (line style, width, colour; all/none/outside/inside/each edge) and the 9-way cell alignment, over a live preview (#714)
2026-10-14	trivial	Save Changes prompt on the web: Save before New/Open holds the command back until the browser's save picker has written and closed the file; a cancelled or failed picker save keeps the document and brings the prompt back with the reason (#1315)
2026-10-14	trivial	Inspect Document (#1344): hidden text found by effective formatting (direct, character style, paragraph style) in the body, headers, footers, notes, comments and text boxes; Remove All deletes it all in one undo step (whole hidden paragraphs with their marks, and the notes of hidden references) and reports a residual list, including tables whose style hides text
2026-10-14	trivial	Alignment guides while moving pictures, shapes and text boxes: WordCraft's own design (snapping to the page, margins and other objects, thin lines while dragging, Alt moves freely, ui.alignmentGuides); 25% → 50%
2026-10-14	trivial	Page Setup: a Paper group with Paper size (the named sizes, the one the section has in either orientation, or Custom size) and Width and Height in the measurement unit; a wider-than-tall size turns the orientation to landscape; a size the margins don't fit keeps the dialog open with a message and applies nothing. Layout › Size ends with More Paper Sizes…, which opens it (#1433)
2026-10-13	trivial	Dark page (View › Switch Modes): highlights and character shading are dimmed toward black, keeping their hue (yellow turns a dim olive), instead of having their lightness inverted, which left yellow bright under white text; text on them draws light (white for black and Automatic), coloured text below 4.5:1 on them is drawn white, and underlines and strikethroughs follow the same rule. Light page, print and exports unchanged. Unlike Word, Automatic text stays white on the dark page (#1252)
2026-10-13	trivial	Full screen (#980): View › Window › Full Screen and F11 (⌃⌘F on macOS), Escape leaves it once nothing else takes it (a selection collapses first); Next Field moves to Alt+F1; keyboard counts re-measured (152 commands, 172 combinations)
2026-10-14	trivial	File dialogs: the system Save As type list names each format, the document's own first (#1399)
2026-10-12	trivial	Web: a pasted picture inserts only when the page is the edit target (page focused; no dialog, Backstage or text field such as a comment or Find box taking input), once; otherwise it is ignored (#1349)
2026-10-13	trivial	Crop handles on the canvas: Picture Format › Crop crop mode with handles, the cropped-away part dimmed, one undo step per drag; with the alignment guides, 50% → 75%
2026-10-13	trivial	Mini toolbar: scrolled with its selection toward the ribbon (or the status bar), it slides under the rulers and ribbon with the text instead of drawing over them, and the part out of view takes no clicks
2026-10-12	trivial	Mini toolbar: a click on the ribbon (or anywhere outside the document) puts it away until the selection changes, so it never covers the ribbon's drop-downs; it now draws below every popup and menu instead of over them
2026-10-13	trivial	Cell Size Height/Width apply to the whole selection (#1242)
2026-10-11	trivial	Tables on the page: Ctrl shares a column border's change among the columns right of it, the left edge moves a left-aligned table's indent (a centred or right-aligned one keeps its alignment), a border of cells selected across moves only in their rows, Alt shows the column widths on the ruler (#711); 80% → 90%
2026-10-11	trivial	Rulers: table column and row markers drag their borders (one undo step; from the ruler only the column left of a border changes, with Shift the neighbour makes up the difference), and in a cell the indents and tabs are measured from it (#700)
2026-10-12	trivial	Tables on the page: a double-click on a nested table's column border fits the column within the cell around the table; a selection from text into or across a table shades the whole cells of the rows it takes (#971)
2026-10-11	trivial	Table context menu as in Word: its items follow the selection (the caret in a cell, several cells, whole columns or rows, the whole table), adding Delete Cells, Split Cells, Distribute Rows and Columns, AutoFit, Text Direction, Insert Caption… and Table Properties… to Insert, Delete and Merge Cells; a right-click beside selected cells drops them
2026-10-11	trivial	Tables on the page: ordinary drags, Shift+arrows and Shift+click over cells select a rectangle of whole cells, as in Word
2026-10-11	trivial	Tables on the page: selection areas for columns, rows and cells, "+" insert buttons, the move handle and double-click AutoFit; Select Column in the ribbon
2026-10-12	trivial	Quick Access Toolbar: Undo list to undo several steps at once (#701)
2026-10-13	trivial	Start screen (#1129): no document is created behind it; Esc or Back shows an empty window (no page, ribbon greyed out but for Help, Info/Save/Save As/Print/Export off in File, title "WordCraft") until Blank document, a template or a file is opened; closing asks nothing; commands that need a document say so (only listed interface commands and font.add work without one; the control channel's document.inspect and ui.render say no document is open)
2026-10-12	trivial	Start screen (#766): launched with no file, the app opens on File › Home (Blank document, templates, Recent) as Word does; Esc or the back arrow leaves an empty blank document; File › Options › General › Start-up turns it off, kept between runs; ui.startScreen for agents. Not shown with files, --sample or --control
2026-10-12	trivial	Alt+Q moves to "Tell me" command search, as in Word for Windows (#819)
2026-10-12	trivial	Ribbon groups fit above their labels: View › Show puts Hide White Space (#645) in a second column instead of a fourth row over the "Show" label; Developer › Controls drops the gaps that pushed it into its label; Layout › Paragraph (#654) puts its column gap inside cells (no add_space in the grid, a debug assertion) and 1.5 pt between rows so it fits; ribbon_groups_fit_above_their_labels checks every tab in every language
2026-10-12	trivial	Window caption: a file name in a script the interface fonts lack (Hebrew, Arabic, and the rest; CJK via the CJK UI font) is drawn with a fallback face instead of ?
2026-10-12	trivial	Save Changes prompt: Save has focus when it opens, so Enter, Tab and the arrow keys answer without the mouse (#861)
2026-10-12	trivial	Navigation headings truncate with an ellipsis within the pane width, preserving resizing and full-text hover (#759)
2026-10-11	minor	Reading Mode: viewport-height horizontal columns, animated paging, transient display controls, heading navigation and responsive anchored resizing
2026-10-11	trivial	Alt activation handles native key/modifier events in either order, including key-up with the old Alt flag; taps toggle once, chords and focus loss do not activate KeyTips
2026-10-11	trivial	Quick Access Toolbar KeyTips (#620): 1–9, zero-prefixed numbers for longer toolbars, disabled commands stay disabled, Escape cancels, badge keystrokes never type into the document; persisted File › Options switch
2026-10-11	trivial	Ribbon buttons that run a command (alignment, Bold, styles…) hand keyboard focus back to the document, so typing continues without another click; they also report their name and enabled state to screen readers (#686)
2026-10-12	trivial	Keytips use Word for Windows' tab letters, as observed there: File F (opens the Backstage), Design G, References S, Review R, View W, Help Y (were L, R, S, V and none)
2026-10-12	trivial	Comments: comment text and author names in a script the interface fonts lack (Arabic, Hebrew, and the rest; CJK via the CJK UI font) are drawn with a fallback face in the balloons and Comments pane instead of boxes; read-only balloons show right-to-left text in reading order (words, bidi runs and brackets), set against the right edge
2026-10-13	trivial	Keytips reach the contextual table tabs with Word's two-letter badges: Alt, J, T opens Table Design and Alt, J, L Table Layout; after J only the J badges stay (#1183)
2026-10-12	trivial	Shift+F10 opens the page's context menu below the caret, with the spelling suggestions and synonyms for the word there; ui.contextMenu for agents (#821). The Menu key itself isn't passed on by the windowing layer yet
2026-10-12	trivial	Search: Alt+Q (and Alt, Q) opens the Search box from anywhere, as in Word; the key's own "q" isn't typed; every word of a query matches, so "insert table" finds Insert › Tables › Table; tools.search lists matches for agents (#819)
2026-10-12	trivial	Find, Replace and Go To as in Word (#712): Ctrl+F and Home › Find open only the Navigation pane with its search box ready to type in (the selected text searched for); Find and Replace is one dialog with Find, Replace and Go To tabs (Advanced Find, Ctrl+H, Ctrl+G / F5); Go To moves to a page (a number, or +2 / −1 from the current page; Next and Previous step a page) or a bookmark
2026-10-11	trivial	Tables on the page: column and row borders and the resize handle drag, with a dashed guide and one undo step per drag (#217)
2026-10-11	trivial	Animation effects › Use system setting also reads macOS (Reduce motion) and the Linux/BSD desktops (settings portal: the cross-desktop reduced-motion preference, GNOME's switch, KDE's animation speed; the GTK and KDE settings files where no portal answers), and follows a change without a restart
2026-10-11	trivial	Animation effects setting in File › Options › Accessibility (Use system setting, On, Off), kept between runs: the app eased wheel scrolling, zooming and its fades whatever the system's setting was; off, they land at once. Follows the system's setting on Windows and in browsers; ui.animations for agents
2026-10-11	trivial	Built-in file browser when the system file dialog can't be shown on Linux/BSD; ui.fileBrowser (#576)
2026-10-11	trivial	Every measurement now follows File › Options › Advanced › Measurement units: the Line Numbers "From text" distance and the Hyphenation zone were still fixed in inches (#755)
2026-10-11	trivial	Track Changes Options › Show revisions in balloons works: tracked deletions in the body leave the text for "Deleted: …" balloons in the markup area, joined to where they were; inline again where no balloons show (Comments pane, Read Mode, side by side, Web Layout), and always inline in headers, footers, notes and text boxes
2026-10-11	trivial	Mini toolbar in two rows like Word's (font, size, grow, shrink; B I U S, highlight, font colour, four alignments) with every button inside the bar; font and size lists drop from the box's left edge; dropdown arrows a readable size; font list entries take the theme's text colour in dark mode (#535)
2026-10-11	trivial	Find and Replace: Special ▾ menu (^p, ^t, ^?, ^#, ^$, ^w, ^&, ^c … ; a shorter wildcard list), Use wildcards (? * [a-z] [!x] {n,m} @ < > ( ), \1 in Replace with), Match prefix/suffix, Ignore punctuation and white space; ^p matches and splits paragraphs, Replace All is one undo step (#543)
2026-10-11	trivial	Update Style to Match Selection takes how the selection looks (its paragraph and character styles as well as direct formatting) and applies the style to it; Home › Styles gallery tiles get a right-click menu with Update to Match Selection and Modify… (#555)
2026-10-11	trivial	Outlining tab in Outline view (level box, promote/demote, move, expand/collapse, Show Level, Show Text Formatting, Show First Line Only, Close); outline symbols select a heading with its content on click and expand/collapse on double-click; Alt+Shift+Plus/Minus, Alt+Shift+1–9, Alt+Shift+A (#493)
2026-10-11	trivial	File › Options as panes (General, Display, Proofing, Save, Language, Accessibility, Advanced, Agents), every setting wired; file.options headless (#485)
2026-10-11	trivial	Right-click on a picture, shape or text box selects it and offers Wrap Text: the seven wrapping styles (current one checked), Move with Text and Fix Position on Page (arrange.moveWithText) (#513)
2026-10-11	trivial	Paragraph dialog: Mirror indents (Inside/Outside labels), Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style, Formatting exceptions (Suppress line numbers, Don't hyphenate) (#512)
2026-10-11	trivial	The caret glides to its new place for keys and typing and its blink fades, as measured from Word for Windows; File › Options › Advanced › Animation turns it off, kept between runs; ui.caretAnimation for agents
2026-10-11	trivial	Screen readers: the document canvas exposes paragraphs, headings, lists, tables, links, pictures and the caret through AccessKit (#488); 25% → 50%
2026-10-11	trivial	More Colors… in every colour drop-down and a Colors dialog (Standard and Custom tabs, RGB/HSL numbers, hex box) with Recent Colors (#606)
2026-10-11	trivial	Selection by units: double-click and drag extends by whole words, triple-click and drag by paragraphs, Ctrl/⌘+click and drag by sentences; select.dragUnit (#549)
2026-10-12	trivial	Selection bar: clicks in the left margin select the line, paragraph or document, drags select whole lines, Shift+click extends by lines; select.line {"pos"}, select.dragUnit units line and document (#856)
2026-10-13	trivial	Right-click on a table of contents entry offers Update Field, which updates the whole table (references.updateToc); the Update Table of Contents choice (page numbers only) is still missing (#1197)
2026-10-11	trivial	Compare / Combine Documents (original and revised document, label changes with, comparison settings, word or character level, show changes in) and AutoCorrect Options (replacement list, capitalization, exceptions, AutoFormat As You Type, Math AutoCorrect) dialogs; Restrict Editing pane (formatting and editing restrictions, exceptions for everyone, password); modal dialog rows merged into one (#412)
2026-10-11	trivial	Line Numbers, Hyphenation (with Manual Hyphenation), Language, Envelopes and Labels dialogs (#407); the three duplicated modal-dialog rows merged into one
2026-10-11	trivial	Accessibility pane (errors/warnings/tips, jump-to, fixes) and Alt Text pane, opened from Picture/Shape Format › Accessibility and right-click › View Alt Text… (#386)
2026-10-11	trivial	References dialogs: Caption (New/Delete Label, Numbering with chapter numbers), Index and Mark Index Entry (Mark All), Custom Table of Contents (Options, TOC styles via Modify Style), Source Manager and Create/Edit Source; modal dialog count 34 (#402)
2026-10-11	trivial	Dark theme: Share, the avatar initials, the AutoSave knob and keytips use dark on_accent text on the light accent (6.2:1, 8.4:1 on hover; white was 2.9:1) (#655)
2026-10-11	trivial	Text field and combo outlines reach 3:1 against their fill and surroundings in both themes (light #8A8A8A, dark #7A7A7A); a test pins the ratios (#657)
2026-10-16	trivial	Font dialog: Kerning for fonts with its Points and above size (12 pt when turned on), set on the selection in one undo step; neither on nor off while the selected text differs (format.state reports kern)
2026-10-11	trivial	Font dialog: Asian text font and Latin text font boxes, each with its own list and type-to-find, shown for a Chinese/Japanese interface or East Asian text in the selection; OK sets only the fonts changed; format.font {"eastAsia"} (#505)
2026-10-11	trivial	References › Table of Authorities: Insert Table of Authorities is labelled and joined by Update Table (references.updateAuthorities), as in the Index group (#661)
2026-10-11	trivial	Layout › Paragraph: Indent and Spacing fields fit above the group title, on shared label and field columns, all the same width (#654)
2026-10-11	trivial	Two-line labels on large ribbon buttons end above the group title row (icon and label moved up, title row 18 px; shared constants with a compile-time check) (#653)
2026-10-11	trivial	Menu buttons (Header, Page Number, Breaks, Wrap Text, table Select/Delete/AutoFit…) grey out and don't open while the command their menu is about is disabled, like the other ribbon buttons (#658)
2026-10-11	trivial	One drop-down marker everywhere: large ribbon buttons, Equation and the Editing/Reviewing button draw the dropdown icon after their label, like split and menu buttons, instead of a text glyph (#659)
2026-10-11	trivial	Dark theme: Styles, style-set and table-style previews sit on a dimmer page tone; with View › Switch Modes on, the Styles gallery previews the dark page (#663)
2026-10-13	trivial	Equation tab and Insert › Equation: every gallery tile, structure button and symbol is drawn from a few shared textures written in place (at most four, never wiped while their pictures are on screen), so the pictures stay in the theme's tile and text colours on Windows (DirectX 12) instead of turning inverted, red or teal (#1002)
2026-10-11	trivial	Dialog primary buttons, the Discord pill, the table eraser line and the Navigation search highlight take their colours from the theme in both themes (widgets::primary_button); a test bans the old fixed values (#656)
2026-10-11	trivial	Dark theme: Share, the avatar initials, the AutoSave knob and keytips use dark on_accent text on the light accent (6.2:1, 8.4:1 on hover; white was 2.9:1) (#655)
2026-10-11	trivial	Text field and combo outlines reach 3:1 against their fill and surroundings in both themes (light #8A8A8A, dark #7A7A7A); a test pins the ratios (#657)
2026-10-11	trivial	Customize Ribbon (custom tabs and groups, hidden and reordered tabs) and a customizable Quick Access Toolbar with a working … menu (#379, #376)
2026-10-11	trivial	Customize Keyboard dialog (Tools › Customize Keyboard, File › Options › Keyboard shortcuts): custom keys override built-ins and persist (#368)
2026-10-11	minor	Keyboard shortcuts 101 → 125 commands (#330): Reset Paragraph/Character Formatting, symbols, DATE/TIME/PAGE fields, view switches, Word Count, mail merge, F4 Repeat now reachable
2026-10-11	trivial	Collapsed duplicate rows left by parallel merges
2026-10-11	trivial	Dialogs keep their top edge in place when switching tabs (Paragraph, Font, Borders and Shading…): only the bottom edge moves (#507)
2026-10-12	minor	File › Recover page: startup discovery, unsaved restore through Save Changes, confirmed discard and keep-for-later dismissal. Desktop only; details. No readiness percentage change.
2026-10-11	trivial	Interface size setting in File › Options › General (80–200 %), kept between runs and applied on top of the system's display scale; ui.interfaceSize for agents (#475)
2026-10-11	trivial	Font list ends with Add Font… (TTF, OTF, TTC, WOFF, WOFF2; also by dropping the file); added fonts are listed at once and kept between runs (#582)
2026-10-11	trivial	Font box (ribbon and mini toolbar): typing lists the matching fonts (prefix first, then any part of the name); Up/Down, Enter or a click picks one, Escape cancels (#359)
2026-10-11	trivial	Templates and Add-ins (template path, Attach…, automatically update document styles) and Organizer (copy styles from another file, delete, rename) dialogs (#377); styles update from the template only when the user asks (OK with the box ticked, or Update Styles), never on open; the three Modal dialogs rows merged into one
2026-10-11	trivial	Field codes (#339): View › Field Codes (Alt+F9), Toggle Field Codes (Shift+F9), a field-code popup (double-click, right-click › Edit Field…; Ctrl+F9 opens the Field dialog), unlink/lock/unlock and next/previous field keys; field items in the context menu
2026-10-10	trivial	Tabs dialog (Paragraph › Tabs…, double-click a ruler tab) and Borders and Shading with Borders, Page Border and Shading tabs (#320)
2026-10-10	trivial	Columns (presets, unequal widths, line between, apply to), Symbol (font coverage grid by Unicode subset, recently used, character code, Special Characters) and Field (categories, options, field codes) dialogs (#321)
2026-10-10	trivial	Define New Multilevel List (all nine levels, live preview, list.define) and Track Changes Options (show, balloons, insertion/deletion marks and colours, changed-line bars; review.trackingOptions, saved per user) (#328)
2026-10-11	trivial	Enclose Characters dialog and Home › Font button (#297)
2026-10-10	trivial	Shortcuts: Alt+Shift+Up/Down move paragraphs, Alt+Shift+Left/Right promote/demote (⌃⇧ arrows on macOS), Shift+F5 Go Back, Alt+X Toggle Unicode (#343)
2026-10-10	trivial	Rotation handle on pictures, shapes and text boxes; Rotate menu (90° and flips) and a Rotation box in Picture/Shape Format › Size (#332)
2026-10-10	trivial	System interface theme keeps following OS appearance changes (no longer pins the macOS window); Dark page no longer darkens the interface (#311, #312)
2026-10-11	trivial	Insert › Icons picker: search, category chips, icons drawn live from the library's path data; Picture Format › Icon Color (#309)
2026-10-10	trivial	AutoSave switch greyed out with a tooltip saying why where AutoSave can't save; Save As from it (#196, #176)
2026-10-13	trivial	Review › Language and the status bar's language menu end with Set Proofing Language… (the Language dialog: every language, Set As Default) and Language Preferences…; a language outside the short list (French…) shows by name and checked, another region of a listed language by language and region (French (Canada)) (#860)
2026-10-10	minor	Status bar language: the caret's language, a click opens the proofing-language menu (also Review › Language); context menu items translated
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
2026-10-10	trivial	Draw tab tools and Review › Hide Ink (#307)

Quick Access Toolbar labels are generated from the current button order. For more than nine buttons, the remaining labels start with zero and use the same number of digits (for example 01, 02 on a ten-button toolbar; 001 through 011 on a twenty-button toolbar). This keeps labels unambiguous. Those extra-number assignments have not been compared with Word. | 2026-10-14 | trivial | Draw: Ink to Shape recognises single-stroke arrows | | 2026-10-11 | trivial | Draw: Lasso, Add Pen gallery, Ink to Shape and Ink Replay (#395) | | 2026-10-12 | trivial | Recipient List dialog: Filter and Sort section (conditions joined by And/Or, three sort keys, merge order column), .xls in the picker (#778) | | 2026-10-13 | trivial | Double-clicking the top or bottom margin of a page with no header or footer creates the one that page shows and edits it, as in Word; one left empty is taken away again on leaving; insert.editHeader/insert.editFooter {"page"} for agents (#960); making one is an undo step (insert.createHeader/insert.createFooter), refused read-only, linked from the first section | | 2026-10-15 | trivial | Narrow windows: the tab strip keeps the room of Comments / Editing / Share and gives way in order (tab padding, Comments and Editing labels, Share label, plain tabs into », active and contextual labels cut with …, last the active tab into »); File never leaves the strip. Public sources say Word keeps those buttons in view and shrinks the tabs; the » menu is ours (#2026) | | 2026-10-15 | trivial | Interface Theme as a searchable View › Dark Mode command (light/dark/system, toggles light and dark without a value), driving the same setting as Options; ribbon menu rewired to it (#1861) |