My OnlyOffice is defaulting to A4 page size. I would like to change this to default to US Letter since I am in the United States. I have searched around the help forums but not found a solution. How can I change the default page size?
Thank you to anyone who can offer assistance!
Only Office for Desktop
OS: MacOS Monterray
Browser version: Firefox
Hello @ossian1898
We are checking the situation. I’ll update this thread when we have something to share.
Hello @ossian1898
Sorry for the late reply.
We have checked the situation and we added your suggestion to internal tracksystem (internal number - 59552). We have started working on it.
Being able to change the unit of measurement is great. But missing the ability to change the default page size, not so fun. I’m on a Linux box. Thus, the following is not tested on other platforms.
In a terminal window, run onlyoffice-desktopeditors --new-document-templates. That will create OnlyOffice templates in $HOME/Templates/.
Open each template file, change the page size, and save.
$HOME/Templates/New Document.docx
$HOME/Templates/New form template.docxf
$HOME/Templates/New Spreadsheet.xlsx
Copy the updated templates to the application location.
Note: Change the language (in my case, en-US).
SRC=$HOME/Templates
DEST=/opt/onlyoffice/desktopeditors/converter/empty/en-US/
cp "$SRC/New Document.docx" "$DEST/new.docx"
cp "$SRC/New form template.docxf" "$DEST/new.docxf"
cp "$SRC/New Spreadsheet.xlsx" "$DEST/new.xlsx"
This works for me. Creating a new Document or Spreadsheet is set to the US Letter size.
You know, it is now 2024. I pulled the latest OO down to this Windows 10 machine and it still defaults to A4!!!
In America, nobody uses A4.
Having to manually change this for each and every document is causing a whole lot of people to abandon this product.
Hello @seasoned_geek
We are working on the mentioned suggestion in this thread. Please accept our apologies for the length of the situation. We will update this thread once we have somethin to share.
They finally fixed this for version 8.2 on macOS.
Thank you for your check!
However, we are still working on the reported bug to provide the solution for Windows platform as well. We will update this thread once we have something to share.
Is there any update on this?? My default paper size is set to US letter and I want to change it to A4. How does it even decide what to pick as default paper size??
Please don’t tell me this is in the same state as the basic feature of Page Border.
Hello @tukykarmakar
We are still working on the mentioned suggestion and we will update this thread once we have something to share.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.
That did not work for me:
~/Templates/New spreadsheet.xlsxIt has page size US and margins normal when in Onlyoffice Home I ciick Spreadsheet.
When I open ~/Templates/New spreadsheet.xlsx directly it does have narrow margins and size A4
I wonder if the user interface language has an effect on the document sizes as in /opt/onlyoffice/desktopeditors/converter/empty there are folders per country code. That would be a ui design flaw.
Hello @theking2
Unfortunately, we’re still working on the mentioned suggestion in this thread. We will update this thread once we have something to share.
I had the same issue. I wanted to set A4 as default but it was set to US Letter. I just re-installed the application as EN-UK instead of EN-US and it fixed the default for me. But would be appreciated it if were a simple switch in the settings.
Hello @thomas147
We have collected your request, and we will update this thread once we have something to share.