01 / Our apps / Diract Word
Version 0.1.1
Diract Word
33 features added · 7 to come · 0 open bugs
02 / Specification
| Systems | macOS 11 or later (one universal app), Windows 10 or 11 (64 bit), and Debian or Ubuntu. |
|---|---|
| Built with | Rust, with our own Word engine. No web view. |
| Account and internet | Neither needed. |
| Saving | Only the paragraphs you change. Every other byte as it came. |
| Undo | 100 steps, across typing, formats and styles. |
| Page breaks | Held to Word for Mac's own PDF, page by page, on seven documents, among them a 44 page commercial lease made in Word 2003. |
| Text drawn in | Arial from the computer where it has it, else Liberation Sans, which has Arial's measurements. The document's own font name is kept and saved. |
| Every save | A new copy beside the file, swapped in once complete, so a crash never leaves half a file. |
03 / Features
Added 33
- Word's compatibility options for documents made in older Word, so they lay out as Word lays them out18 Oct 2026
- Tab leaders: the dots in a table of contents, drawn and kept18 Oct 2026
- Another firm's styles: a template's styles applied without losing the document's numbering, and Match styles to move each style onto theirs18 Oct 2026
- Numbering check: numbers that lost the clause above them are found, and joined back to their list18 Oct 2026
- Paragraph settings: the spaces before, after and between lines shown in colour on the selected paragraphs, and changed by dragging18 Oct 2026
- Customise list: each level's number and text positions set by dragging on a ruler in the preview18 Oct 2026
- Ruler: every kind of tab stop, first line, hanging, left and right indent markers, steps of 0.05 cm and the value shown while moving18 Oct 2026
- Styles pane: each style shown in its own look and number, with New, Modify, Update to match and Delete18 Oct 2026
- Borders and shading: a diagram to click each side on, Word's nine widths, eight line styles and the full colour palette18 Oct 2026
- Opens .doc files, through Microsoft Word where it is installed so styles and numbering come through18 Oct 2026
- A Home screen like Word's: templates, recent documents and favourites, opening at a click18 Oct 2026
- References18 Oct 2026
- Comments and tracked changes18 Oct 2026
- The Insert and Layout tabs, and table editing18 Oct 2026
- Borders, shading, Find and Replace, Format Painter and Change case18 Oct 2026
- Numbered and bulleted lists18 Oct 2026
- Headers and footers, with page numbers in them18 Oct 2026
- New, Open, Save and Save as, with Cmd or Ctrl+S17 Oct 2026
- Asks before closing with unsaved changes17 Oct 2026
- Typing, with the input method for accented and Asian characters17 Oct 2026
- One selection across paragraphs and tables, by click, Shift+click, drag, double click and triple click17 Oct 2026
- Cut, Copy and Paste as plain text17 Oct 2026
- Undo and Redo, 100 steps17 Oct 2026
- The ribbon of the Word editor in Diract, with what is not done yet greyed17 Oct 2026
- Styles gallery from the document's own quick styles17 Oct 2026
- Font, size, and Increase and Decrease font size17 Oct 2026
- Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough, Subscript, Superscript, Font colour, Highlight and Clear formatting17 Oct 2026
- Alignment, indents and line spacing17 Oct 2026
- Real pages, with Word's line breaking and page filling17 Oct 2026
- Tables drawn with their style, shading, borders, merged cells and gridlines17 Oct 2026
- Typing, selecting and formatting inside table cells17 Oct 2026
- Fields, links, bookmarks and content controls kept as one piece, saved byte for byte17 Oct 2026
- Check box form fields shown as boxes17 Oct 2026
Outstanding 7
- A table inside a table (shown as its text today)
- Table header rows repeated on each page
- Enter after a heading moving to the style's next style
- Paste with formatting
- One window, with a second launch handing its file to it
- Signed by Apple and Microsoft, so the first launch needs no extra step
- Sign in to Diract from the profile on Home
04 / Bugs
Open 0
No open bugs.
Fixed 11
- Superscript was drawn on the baseline.18 Oct 2026
- Hidden text was still in the PDF.18 Oct 2026
- Editing a header took away the watermark.18 Oct 2026
- Moving a tab on the ruler dropped its leader dots.18 Oct 2026
- Applying another firm's styles took away the document's clause numbering.18 Oct 2026
- Rules under headings, and footers set out in a table, were not drawn.18 Oct 2026
- Documents made in older Word took more pages than in Word: spacing between paragraphs and lines differed.18 Oct 2026
- A clause heading's number printed at the foot of the page before its words.18 Oct 2026
- Clauses after a definition's sub-list were numbered one behind Word's.18 Oct 2026
- Double clicking a .docx in Finder did not open it on a Mac.18 Oct 2026
- A fresh Windows asked for VCRUNTIME140.dll before the app would start.17 Oct 2026
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