Papercurve Office

Papercurve Office is a full editor for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, built into Papercurve. You make your changes in the browser and save. There is nothing to download and nothing to upload again.

Every save becomes a new version of your content, so your review team always sees the latest file and you can compare it with the one before.

Which files can be edited

• Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, including the older .doc, .xls and .ppt formats.
• The content must be a draft. Released content has to be revoked before it can be edited.
• Only the current version can be edited. Older versions are read-only.

To start a new file instead of editing an existing one, see Start a New Office Document.

Editing a file

1. Open the draft. In the side panel, click Edit. The tag beside it tells you what kind of file will open: Document, Spreadsheet or Presentation.

2. The editor opens on your file. Edit it as you would in any office program: type, format text, and use the menus to insert tables, images and more.

3. Save your work with File > Save, the save button at the left of the toolbar, or Ctrl+S (Cmd+S on a Mac). A confirmation appears once your changes have been saved as a new version.

4. When you are done, click the ✕ at the right of the editor’s title bar, or choose File > Exit Editor. If you have changes you haven’t saved, they are saved for you first.

5. You return to your draft on the newest version. Version History in the side panel has gone up, and the earlier versions are still there if you need them.

What a save does

• Each save creates a new version. The version you started from is kept and is never overwritten.
• The new version keeps the review team, tags, content properties, linked reference documents, favourites and share links.
• Unresolved comments and reference annotations are carried over to the new version. Resolved comments stay with the version they were resolved on.
• Carried-over comments and references keep their position on the page. If your edit moved the text they point to, check them on the new version.
• The new version takes a moment to process before it appears in the viewer.

Editing with other people

Everyone who clicks Edit on the same content works in the same live session. You see each other’s changes as they are typed, so two people never end up with separate copies.

Good to know

• The editor does not save automatically while you work. Your changes are kept when you save or when you exit the editor.
• To see what changed between two versions, use Compare Versions.
• You can still replace a file the usual way. See Uploading a New Version.