Grafos

Draft — Text documents

The Grafos word processor. It opens and saves .docx straight in the ECMA-376 format, with no conversion.

Format text

Font, size, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, colour and highlight. The font picker lists the fonts on your computer, with search and preview. Subscript and superscript have shortcuts.

Where:Toolbar › Font · Format › Text · Ctrl+B / Ctrl+I / Ctrl+U · Ctrl+Shift+, and Ctrl+Shift+.

Draft with a report open: formatting toolbar at the top, ruler and page.

Change case

Switch the selected text to UPPERCASE, lowercase, Capitalise Each Word, or toggle it.

Where:Format › Change case

Paragraphs

Alignment, bulleted or numbered lists, indent and line spacing (1.0 to 2.0). The ruler sets the first-line indent and tab stops.

Where:Toolbar › Paragraph · Format › Text alignment · Format › Lists · Format › Indent and spacing · Format › Hyphenation…

Styles

The gallery applies the styles of the document itself.

Where:Toolbar › Styles · Format › Paragraph style

Draft toolbar with the ⋮ menu open, showing the style gallery set to the heading style and the table gallery.

Tables

Insert a 3×3 table with a header row. Add and remove rows and columns, merge and split cells. Apply a table style from the gallery.

Where:Insert › Table · Format › Table · Toolbar › Table ▾

Images, symbols, equations and links

Insert images (PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP), symbols, equations and links.

Where:Insert › Image… · Insert › Symbol… · Insert › Equation… · Insert › Link…

Insert menu open in Draft, with Image, Table, Link, Table of contents, Footnote, Symbol and Equation.

Pages and sections

Page break, page number and cover page. Page setup shows the size, orientation and margins of each section, and edits page borders, columns and line numbering.

Where:Insert › Page break · Insert › Page number · Insert › Cover page… · Format › Page setup…

Section properties dialog, with page size, orientation and margins.

Table of contents and references

Table of contents built from headings. Captions, cross-references, index entries, citations and a bibliography with a source library.

Where:Insert › Table of contents · Insert › Caption… · Insert › Cross-reference… · Insert › Citation… · Tools › Bibliography…

Footnotes and endnotes

Insert notes and edit them all in a side panel.

Where:Insert › Footnote · Insert › Endnote… · View › Footnotes

Comments and revisions

Comment on a passage and read comments in the side panel. Tracked changes that come in the file show in the revisions panel.

Where:Insert › Comment · View › Comments · View › Revisions

Find and replace

Search and replace text in the document, with regular expressions if you want.

Where:Edit › Find · Ctrl+F · Edit › Replace · Ctrl+H

Find and replace dialog open over the document.

Word count

Words, characters, paragraphs, pages and reading time. The word total also sits on the status bar.

Where:Tools › Word count… · Ctrl+Shift+G · Status bar

Document statistics dialog with the number of words and pages.

Navigate the document

The navigation pane lists the headings. Click one to go there.

Where:View › Outline · View › Ruler

Mail merge

Generate copies of the document from a CSV list.

Where:Tools › Mail merge…

Inspect and protect

Before sharing, check personal data and hidden properties in the file and remove author and description. Restrict editing of the document.

Where:Tools › Inspect document… · Tools › Restrict editing…

Export and print

Export to PDF, web page (.html), RTF, OpenDocument (.odt) or Markdown. .html, .md and .rtf documents can be imported from the command bar (Import document…).

Where:File › Export · Ctrl+Shift+E · File › Print… · Ctrl+P

File › Export submenu with PDF, .docx, .html, .rtf, .odt and .md.

Draft shortcuts

Keys What it does
Ctrl+B Bold
Ctrl+I Italic
Ctrl+U Underline
Ctrl+L Align left
Ctrl+E Centre
Ctrl+R Align right
Ctrl+J Justify
Tab Increase indent
Shift+Tab Decrease indent
Ctrl+Shift+, Subscript
Ctrl+Shift+. Superscript
Ctrl+Shift+V Paste without formatting
Ctrl+Shift+G Word count
F6 Leave the page (next pane)
Ctrl+N New document
Ctrl+O Open file
Ctrl+S Save
Ctrl+Shift+S Save as… (also F12)
Ctrl+P Print
Ctrl+Shift+E Export PDF
Ctrl+Z Undo
Ctrl+Y Redo (also F4)
Ctrl+F Find
Ctrl+H Find and replace
Alt+Q Command bar
Ctrl+Shift+P Command palette
Ctrl+Shift+N New window
Ctrl+, Settings
F1 Help
Ctrl+/ All shortcuts