| Is there seriously no way to have documents take the full width of the screen in the new version? | Hal P | 2/23/12 12:06 PM | This is insane. I do not print documents; I use them on the screen only. I do not need humongous amounts of empty space on the left and right. If this has not been changed by the time the old version is no longer supported, I will stop using Google |
| Re: Is there seriously no way to have documents take the full width of the screen in the new version? | Felicity_BB | 2/23/12 1:03 PM | Yes, and you're not the only one with this issue. The manual work around is to change your page setup options. But even so the fixed width is inconvenient, annoying, and wastes space in the form of a grey border. I use the old editor because I enjo |
| Re: Is there seriously no way to have documents take the full width of the screen in the new version? | Margaret C. | 2/23/12 2:07 PM | I second all of the above. Google docs without full-screen width/fluid width/web view is not a product that is useful for me. I do not print my documents, I do not share my documents -- so I don't get any advantages with a fixed width page - only d |
| Re: Is there seriously no way to have documents take the full width of the screen in the new version? | Andrea D | 2/23/12 4:46 PM | Agreed. With no alternative to paper-size pagination, the new editor is useless on small screens and wasteful everywhere else. Many of us have no interest in using Google Docs to designing documents for printing on paper. It seems bafflingly retrogra |
| Re: Is there seriously no way to have documents take the full width of the screen in the new version? | Hal P | 2/23/12 10:22 PM | Has Google responded to this criticism, or acknowledged it? I know it's been a common complaint since the new version was launched. How do I change it manually? I don't see a full-width option in page setup. |
| Re: Is there seriously no way to have documents take the full width of the screen in the new version? | Felicity_BB | 2/23/12 10:41 PM | Try using A3 page size, and/or manually adjusting the page size and margins to the right number of horizontal inches to fit your screen. This method is extremely fidgety, will not be applicable to all computers or at all times for the user, and regr |
| Re: Is there seriously no way to have documents take the full width of the screen in the new version? | PantherDave | 2/24/12 11:01 PM | I totally agree. This is really irritating. How could Google remove such a great feature that makes it so easy to edit documents on a computer? Computer screen sizes vary widely. So do many people's browser windows. I almost never print docs - I use |
| Re: Is there seriously no way to have documents take the full width of the screen in the new version? | Felicity_BB | 2/24/12 11:29 PM | Yes, I agree, PantherDave. Why tie down computer-edited documents to an arbitrary page size when they'll never be printed? |
| Re: Is there seriously no way to have documents take the full width of the screen in the new version? | Andrea D | 2/26/12 12:44 AM | In earlier threads about the same problem, Jeff Harris from Google explained candidly and sensibly why the new editor can't support fluid width. (They needed to provide precise formatting for printer output, and real-time collaborative editing, and t |
| Re: Is there seriously no way to have documents take the full width of the screen in the new version? | ehong33234 | 5/10/12 1:05 PM | Come on Google! I'm sharing a document with 50 co-workers and they have no way of controlling scaling on their screen. So some of them (literally) see 5 cells of the spreadsheet filling their screen and they only thing they can do is scroll forever t |
| Re: Is there seriously no way to have documents take the full width of the screen in the new version? | Gill | 5/10/12 3:59 PM | Is this is in a spreadsheet? This thread is mainly about *documents* - ther eis no new version of the spreadsheet editor thta I'm aware of. Can you send a screenshot of the 5 cells? Note there is an option under the View menu for a more compact toolb |
| Re: Is there seriously no way to have documents take the full width of the screen in the new version? | Eoin Ryan | 7/22/12 1:22 AM | Gash this is annoying?! Does anyone have a workaround, please? |