> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** trivial (Table of Authorities buttons labelled, with Update Table, #661; previously trivial: More Colors… and the Colors dialog, #606; previously trivial: Find and Replace special characters and wildcards, #543; previously trivial: Customize Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar, #379; 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
| 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, Ink Replay with play/pause/rewind/forward bar (#395); missing: Ink to Math | Same plus Draw | 85% | (Draw in features) |
| 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). Not shown below the ribbon | customizable | 90% | 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 |
| 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 |
| Context menus (right-click) | text, spelling suggestions, fields (Update Field, Edit Field…, Toggle Field Codes, #339); right-click selects a picture, shape or text box and offers Wrap Text (styles, Move with Text / Fix Position on Page, #513); tables partial | rich per context | 60% | 3–5 |
| 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) | | 68% | 4–6 |
| Interface themes (light, dark, system #249, follows OS changes live #311), dark page separate from the interface theme (#194, #312) | ✅ | ✅ | 90% | — |
| Interface size (File › Options › General, 80–200 %, on top of the system display scale; `ui.interfaceSize`) (#475) | ✅ | system display scaling only | 100% | — |
| 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); not yet tried with real screen readers | full | 50% | 5–8 |
| 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 | 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 | 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) |
| 2026-10-11 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Dialogs keep their top edge in place when switching tabs (Paragraph, Font, Borders and Shading…): only the bottom edge moves (#507) |
| 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 | 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) |
| 2026-10-10 | 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) |
