Employee-requested features/options

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I’m currently running version 9.2.x/9.3 on several office machines (windows 11, desktop editors linked to an ONLYOFFICE server instance through cloud connection, SSO through Kerberos/Keycloak) and last week a few employees came to me asking if some things exist.

1.) Is there a way to change the default highlight color from the light blue that shows to something darker? As these systems operate in a medical facility, some of them either use a filter or some other privacy system in place and the soft, light blue (although very pleasing) is very hard to work with.

2.) As mentioned in the first topic, these are systems running in a medical facility. Is there a feature to enhance the autocorrect so that it recognizes (bear with me here) ‘trendy’ words and phrases, along with words that might exist in a medical sense (that have honestly been words for centuries) ? For instance, a new buzzword being “telemedicine” is not being recognized and is flagging autocorrect in ONLYOFFICE, whereas before using M-soft products as well as our online software suites (AI dictation, notes, records, etc) do not have this issue, and recognize these words mostly without problems. Perhaps something more than just a (not literally) seemingly dictionary-style autocorrect lookup system would be a fantastic improvement in a very vocabulary-changing world.

3.) I don’t currently have an M-soft office installation at hand to give you specifics, but normally in Word the employee would have the option to, as they highlight words, have a quick-edit context menu-esque box pop up giving them options to quickly modify what they have highlighted. They have delighted in this feature and questioned if it was a thing in ONLYOFFICE. Has this been considered or is this a thing? I will admit this seems very useful and would really bring your product in-line with the big suite as far as transition goes.

4.) Is there possibly a way to pre-deploy the desktop editors with the classic style that uses the colored borders (blue for word, green for excel, etc) instead of all white? It helps the older doctors and other employees transition easier from what they’re used to, as it is nearly indistinguishable from that software suite.

I don’t mean to data dump issues on you, as this software suite is fantastic! These are just frankly very justified requests from my wonderful team and I would love to see the minor frustrations minimized. This is so close to being such a perfect professional replacement for us (while probably very perfect for others, of course!). These don’t seem to be learning curves, but rather very logical implementation requests that bring true value to an open community product.

Thank you!

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Hello, @Dait_User !

Thank you very much for your detailed feedback and for sharing these requests from your team. We really appreciate it, especially given such a practical use case in a medical environment. Please find my comments on each point below.

  1. At the moment, there is no separate setting to change the text selection color in the editor interface. This request has already been registered on our side as a feature suggestion, and I have added your feedback to it.

  2. Regarding spell-checking and autocorrect for medical terminology recognition: ONLYOFFICE Docs supports adding custom dictionaries on the Document Server side. The server version allows administrators to add custom dictionaries by placing the required files in the dictionaries directory and updating the dictionary data.

However, this is not a built-in downloadable medical vocabulary pack that can simply be enabled by default. The currently supported approach is for the administrator to add a dictionary manually to the server by placing the required .dic, .aff, and .json files into the dictionaries folder, then running update.py and restarting the ONLYOFFICE services.

So, if you need broad support for medical terms across your users, you would need to prepare or obtain a suitable dictionary in the required format and deploy it on the server. The official guide is available here: Adding custom dictionaries to the server version

If you are looking for a more advanced predictive or context-aware autocorrect system, please describe in more detail how you would like it to work so that I can advise more precisely or register it as a feature request.

  1. The quick formatting popup that appears when text is selected has already been registered in our internal tracker as a feature request, so I’ve added your feedback to it. Unfortunately, this functionality is not available at the moment. We’ll share an update here if there is any news on its implementation.

  2. ONLYOFFICE Docs does include the Classic Light theme, which uses a colored interface style and can make the transition easier for users who are accustomed to that type of layout. You can change it in the editor settings by selecting the corresponding interface theme.

As for pre-deploying this theme to all workstations, this depends on how your environment is set up. If you are using a custom DMS integration, the Desktop Editors API supports changing the theme programmatically via portal:uitheme; however, for the standard Connect to Cloud scenario, I do not currently see a documented way to pre-deploy this preference to all clients.

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Please describe in more detail how you envision this behavior and share some information about your environment.

Thank you again for taking the time to share these suggestions. Feedback like this is very helpful for improving the product, especially in professional environments where usability and accessibility are particularly important.

I look forward to your reply!