Dictionary, improved comments and more in the new documents

We’re working hard to bring features from the old document editor over to the new editor. Today we added a few more, so we wanted to summarize them here.

Dictionary
If you select a word in your doc, you can look up the definition for that word by going to Tools -> Define...

Special Characters
To insert characters that you can’t create with a regular keyboard, we also added a special characters dialog via Insert -> Special characters...

So if you’ve been dying to make a maze in the new word processor, then you’re in luck:

Metric Units
If you’ve set your language to English US your ruler will be set in inches. But now, all other locales see the ruler with metric units:

In the future, we’ll make this a preference that can be changed, no matter what language you’ve set for your account.

Comment Scrolling
One of the big pieces of feedback we heard is that the new documents didn’t handle long comments very well. If comments got too long, it became hard to tell which comments were associated with which text in the document.

Today we added automatic scrolling for comments, so whenever you click in a comment it will scroll so that it’s directly beside the associated text.

If you have feedback or ideas, let us know on the forums and product ideas page.

Posted by: Isabella Ip, Software Engineer