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* Table sizing: Height/Width boxes, real AutoFit Contents, Table Properties dialog (#44) - Table Layout > Cell Size gets Height and Width boxes (inches) for the caret cell's row and column; each edit runs table.rowHeight / table.columnWidth, a drag is one Undo. - AutoFit Contents now measures every column's narrowest (longest word) and widest (unwrapped text) content with the layout's text shaping, shares the text width the way Word does, and writes the widths into the table grid and cell widths. - Table Properties opens a dialog (table width, alignment, indent; row height and rule, break across pages, header row; column width; cell width and vertical alignment). OK applies only what changed as one table.properties step; with settings the command still works headlessly, and without them it reports the current values. - table.columnWidth clears the table's preferred width so the column keeps the new size; table.rowHeight takes an optional exact rule. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Progress docs: Table Properties dialog and AutoFit Contents landed (#44) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Table sizing: saturating column-span sum in sync_cell_widths Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Merge fix: one region_text (main's) after #287 met the landed table-style code Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.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: 2026-10-10 · Change: 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.
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; "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 | Charts, SmartArt, OLE objects, ink and group shapes are dropped on open and lost on save, silently | B | No c:chart, dgm, wpg, w:object handling in crates/docx |
Business and academic documents lose content without warning | 10–15 to preserve and show fallback pictures; 45–70 to render and edit charts and SmartArt | file-format-parity.md |
| 3 | Crashes and freezes in the field: startup crash on Intel UHD Graphics (#170), 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; columns don't balance; long footnotes don't continue; 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 | Formatting revisions, move tracking and content controls are lost (w:rPrChange/w:pPrChange absent; w:sdt unwrapped) |
B | Issue #41; source grep | Legal and editorial review workflows; templates with form controls | 12–18 | file-format-parity.md |
| 6 | No native printing on desktop: File › Print opens the PDF in the system viewer, which prints (#286); no print dialog of our own (printer, copies, ranges); 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: 16 modal dialogs vs Word's ~100 (Tabs, Borders and Shading, Columns, Symbol, Field, Define Multilevel List, Track Changes Options, Options panes…) | B | Dialog enum in crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs |
Power users reach for dialogs the ribbon alone doesn't cover | 20–30 | 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), rotation handle, contour (tight/through) wrap, shape effects, WordArt, connectors, Drawing Canvas, Icons | parity-checklist.md (Shape Format 2/6, 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: all 11 commands missing | parity-checklist.md (Draw 0/11) | Pen and tablet users | 15–25 | hardware-parity.md | |
| 13 | Charts and SmartArt editing (own renderer, chart data editing, SmartArt layouts) | insert.chart, insert.smartArt missing |
Reports and business documents | 45–70 | 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: 4 of Word's 12 bibliography styles; sources not saved in DOCX (#169 open); no EndNote/Mendeley desktop integration | Word's Resources/Style lists 12 styles |
Students and researchers | 10–15 | target-app-parity.md | |
| 16 | Right-to-left completeness: RTL sections and tables, kashida, RTL in HTML/ODT/RTF; eight older RTL bug reports to re-verify after #207 (#215, #211, #199, #66, #63, #48, #19) | layout-parity.md | Arabic, Persian, Hebrew writers | 10–15 | layout-parity.md | |
| 17 | East Asian typography: vertical text, ruby/Phonetic Guide, Enclose Characters, document grid, Asian Typography options | Catalog misses format.phonetic, format.enclose, para.asianTypography |
Chinese, Japanese and Korean documents | 20–30 | layout-parity.md | |
| 18 | Screen-reader access to the document canvas untested | AccessKit enabled; no tests | Blind and low-vision users; public-sector procurement | 10–15 | 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 Excel, Outlook/Contacts, email merge; CSV and typed lists only (#247) | Office administrators | 6–10 | 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 | Customize Ribbon / Keyboard, Quick Access Toolbar customization; ~100 of Word's ~250 shortcuts | ui-parity.md | Power users | 10–16 | 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: Flat OPC XML, Word 2003 XML, MHT, Works/WordPerfect | Rare | 20–35 | 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: long display equations don't break across lines; ink equations | #191 notes | Maths-heavy documents | 3–4 | 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, Draw Table (open PRs exist for the first three — review and merge before re-implementing). Paste Special, Advanced Find, Column Selection, Style Inspector and custom table styles landed on 2026-10-10.
- UI/UX gaps: #7, #18, #24; rotation and crop handles on the canvas; table column drag on the ruler (#49, #217); context menus for objects and tables; Linux title bar theming (#78).
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | 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) |
| 2026-10-10 | major | First version, from the full re-measure: 29 ranked gaps with evidence, impact and hours |