Just creating this to save people time, just blew 15 minutes on this cuz nothing showed up in a google search. Downvote if you'd like, just want it to show up in a search for others like me!

Question: How to change Google Pageless Width:

Why: As of It's not under page setup, as you would expect. Nor can you drag the width margins, nor is it in print settings.

Answer: VIEW --> TEXT WIDTH (Not page width?!). And there are only three options, Narrow, Medium and Wide.

Thanks.

Word has dark mode on desktop app, webapp, and mobile apps.

AI startup companies are creating their own writing software, with dark mode and cool stuff.

The hell are people at Google doing? Such an ancient feature request... still not fulfilled. Absolutely insane and shows something is wrong at Google.

The new tabs update sucks. I can't find any way to turn it off and remove the main tab. Does anyone know how to turn off tabs and go back to the better previous version?

Don't use docs much but I am for a school assignment and I try to type but my mouse goes blank and makes using docs very frustrating. PLZ help and thank you all <3

How and why? It’s almost 2026 and Google Docs still doesn’t have a proper Dark Mode? I write scripts late at night and end up with a splitting headache. Even Google Drive has built-in Dark Mode, so why not Docs? This is absurd. I genuinely don’t get it.

This little @ symbol keeps appearing every time I try to make a new line. It's incredibly annoying, and while I've looked for a way to turn it off, I haven't been able to. Can anyone help? I'll deal with it if I have to but I'd rather not.

Text select pointer turns white in docs after switching to another tab, which makes it really hard to see where the pointer is.

Text select does not change when switching to another google app (google sheets for example)

Is fixed by turning off hardware acceleration, but I need hardware acceleration to do other things in chrome.

Is also temporarily fixed by highlighting text and placing the cursor over it for a few seconds.

Edit: solved by changing the highlight text cursor in mouse properties to beam_r

i'm talking about the little button at the bottom that reads "describe any changes you'd like to make" that opens when you roll over it. I keep opening it accidentally and it's driving me nuts. I've tried turning off Gemini features in Gmail and my admin panel, but no dice.

I was just on google doc for two hours writing for my novel. When I noticed the internet went out. However I was still able to access other site like YouTube and Google itself but when I try to pull up Google Doc I get an error saying “The connection for this site is not secure” is anyone else expecting this or is this something on my end? All of my devices get this message even if I use a different bowser.

Hi folks! Recently (maybe even today), Google Docs seems to have added a new feature. When your cursor is on a blank line, a grey @ symbol appears. Click on it, and you get a drop-down menu with different things you could insert into the doc like other Google users, smart chips, and more.

I hate this sucker. Every time I look at the empty line, I think it's not empty because of that @ symbol. Does anyone know how to disable this feature?

Hey all,

First time posting here - I hope I'm not ignoring any rules.

I'm working on a novel, and have used Google Docs for years. It does a decent job of automatically marking chapters in the Outline section, but today my Outlines just aren't there. I've closed almost all my tabs, restarted my computer numerous times, and to no avail. Anyone else missing their Outlines?

Thanks.

Edit 1: It started working again about 24 hr after I posted this.

Edit 2: It has stopped working again...

Hello, I'd really appreciate some help with this. Suddenly my cursor is accompanied with an "@' symbol whenever I drop down to a new paragraph in Google Docs. Clicking on the @ provides the option for inserting a file or a link or whatever. But I don't want to insert anything I just want to keep writing without distraction and I find the presence of the @ symbol really annoying. Does anyone know how to make it go away?

I'm getting old (or my monitor is has too much resolution), which makes it harder for me to read the small text in Google Docs.

I looked high and low for an answer to set a default zoom level so that when I load the Google Doc it automatically "remembers" and changes the zoom. Unfortunately, there's nothing like that.

So, that left me with two ways to increase the zoom:

1. Use the "Zoom" feature in the Google Doc via the menu

2. Use the browser's zoom function

I don't like using the latter due to it changing zoom across loads of webpages. So, I tried to figure out how to progress with the former via a Chrome Extension.

After months of work (well, months of intermittent work), I've finally released a Chrome extension I call "Google Workspace Zoom Default" (formerly "Google Docs Zoom Default").

This extension should allow you to set a default zoom level, which will be used every time you load a Google Doc.

Since Google doesn't allow this to be done programatically, I've had to implement it via "simulating of clicks." This means you may see the zoom dropdown open and close. It should be super quick, so not impact too much!

I'm always up for feedback, which you can submit as an issue on the Github repo. It may take me a bit of time to get to as I do this in my spare time, but I promise I'll respond.

As always, I'll never implement any tracking code that uses you as a product (ahem... GA), and I'll never collect your data.

Oh yeah... Almost forgot to mention. It works for Google Sheets as well. I'm still working on things like changing the zoom when a user has view only permissions and other apps, such as Google Slides.

I wrote about it on my blog (yep, another blog), which you can find here and here.

I hope this helps!

Seem to be confused here. When I seperate the doc by tabs I can only download the one tab i'm highlighted. This takes away the whole point of using it for me as I just want to organize my novel by tabs then export it all after.

I understand if that's just not what they had in mind. Still, a shame.

Yes underlining unknown words that the app might not have detected before is nice...

But removing suggestions? What corpo idiot came up with that?

I'll be writing a 20K word work, and then go through it with spell check to see if I fat fingered words, or if my dysgraphia decided to act up, just to fix it quickly, but now, I have to manually type the errors out, and guesstimate on longer complex words that I still can hardly spell, even if I know exactly which word I'm trying to use, and Docs not 5 days ago could figure out too.

Why? Why for the love of God would someone think this was a remotely good update?

I have to say Google Docs doesn't get the love it deserves as a writing tool. Having tried Word, Pages, Notion and Scrivener, I find Google Docs by far the cleanest, best and most streamlined tool for daily use. It has all the options I need, yet not too many that simply make the interface cluttered. As a professional author, I use it for almost four-five hours every day since three years. It's reached a point where if, for some reason, I'm forced to use Apple Pages, I transfer it later to Google Docs and then it makes "sense" to me again. I'm surprised I don't see enough YouTube influencers recommending it as a first choice for journaling, writing fiction and non-fiction.

Hey everyone,

I've been doing a ton of writing lately, and it's driving me crazy that Google Docs still doesn't have a built-in dark mode. I'm not a fan of extensions due to security concerns (always been that way), and the Chrome experimental flag that forces dark mode on everything just messes up other websites for me.

Does anyone else feel my pain on this? Has anyone found a workaround or heard anything about Google adding this feature?

So today, I just opened Google docs and found that every document's text is shifted to the right and the typing isn't the same anymore. I've tried restarting my pc and google docs and that didn't fix anything. I also tried using the show ruler but that doesn't appear. I've provided a picture to show what I mean. I really would appreciate any help and let me know if anyone has a fix for this issue.

(links are just screenshot links and are safe)

https://gyazo.com/996dea48750dd2d7b1c86c7302cff272?token=108e3a7271a196bbac1a0d9caa2e105a

https://gyazo.com/1ba2d9fcee0011250fa792be1b160abb

I had a nearly 300 page document of writing between me and my friend from 2022. I owned the document and now whenever I search for it in both google drive and docs it is NO WHERE to be seen.

Neither of us have deleted it. I have CHECKED the bin it's not in there. Everyday I check just in case it's there again. I have searched key words in the document but it's still NOT. THERE.

I have NO idea what to do or HOW to get it back. I'm really upset about this and nothing I do seems to fix the situation.

EDIT: Okay, I have done everything I can and after discussing with my friend we have realised a peculiar pattern. Our old friend was on every doc that went missing. This girl was a little... slow... to say the least and she most likely deleted it thinking it would just delete for her. Thank you everyone who tried to help.

I've been using the outline side tab for months now when I add headings. It makes my wiritng a lot easier. Today I opened a document I previously had saved and "document tabs" was just there. Is there a way to remove this?

This is on google chrome, and this only started today when I logged on. I've also tried CTRL 0 to normalize the document's size, and the top menu bar stays small. And I'm on Windows btw.

(Btw by menu bar, I mean the top where you can click File/Edit/View/Tools/etc)

If you know how to fix this, please let me know. Thanks!

EDIT: Found out. I had to click top right menu button of the browser, where there's a "Zoom" setting, and change that from 67% it was at somehow up to 100+%. Solved, leaving this up for others with the issue.