Organizing
Folders, moving things around, and finding them again.
The dashboard
The dashboard is the list of everything you have. Folders sit at the top, your pages and sheets below them. Click a folder to open it, click a document to edit it.
The breadcrumb along the top shows where you are and takes you back. Everything you own lives somewhere in this tree, including the things other people have shared with you.
Folders
Make a folder with the + button, then New folder. It is created wherever you currently are, so open the parent folder first if you want to nest it.
Folders nest up to five levels deep. At the fifth level the option to create a subfolder inside it goes away.
A folder holds pages and sheets together. There are no separate folders per type.
Naming and moving
To rename a page or a sheet, click its title in the editor header. The title is what shows up in your dashboard and when you share the document.
To move a document, right-click it (or use the ⋯ menu at the end of its row) and choose Move, then pick the folder it should go to.
Moving a document into a shared folder makes it visible to everyone in that folder. cDox warns you before it happens.
Working with several at once
You can select several documents at once to download or delete them together. Turn selection on from the dashboard menu, then tick the documents you want.
Moving is one document at a time, not a batch action.
Esc leaves selection mode.
Sorting
Click Name, Size or Modified at the top of the list to sort by it. Click again to reverse the order. Folders always stay above documents, so sorting happens within each group rather than across both.
Finding things
When the list gets long, stop scrolling it and search instead. Search in the left column, or Ctrl+ K from anywhere in the app, opens a box over whatever you were looking at.
It looks at titles, at the contents of your pages, and right down into the cells of your sheets: a sheet result tells you which tab and which cell the text is in. Folders turn up too. Arrow keys move through the list, Enter opens, Escape closes.
Search ignores accents and capitals, so resume finds résumé. It matches inside words too, so udget finds budget. And it only ever shows what you have access to, including folders shared with you.
Right-click menus
On desktop, right-clicking a folder or a document opens its actions: open, rename, move, share, download, delete. Right-clicking an empty part of the dashboard offers to create something instead.
Using the keyboard
The list can be driven entirely from the keyboard. Press Tab until a row is highlighted. The whole list is a single tab stop no matter how many documents are in it, so you never have to tab through them one by one.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| ↑or ↓ | Move between rows |
| → | Open the folder you are on |
| ← | Go back up a level |
| Homeor End | First or last row |
| Enter | Open |
| Ror F2 | Rename |
| M | Move to a folder |
| Backspaceor Del | Delete |
| Space | Select or deselect |
Shift+ F10 (or the Menu key) opens the menu for the row you are on, the same one right-click gives you. And ? opens the full list of shortcuts wherever you are: see Keyboard.
When you go back up with ←, you land on the folder you just came out of rather than at the top of the list, so you keep your place.