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Donna

A new Home, and a new look 🏠

This release is mostly about the screen you see first, and about the app looking calmer once you're past it.

A new Home 🏠

Home has been rebuilt around one obvious place to start.

  • Ask Donna sits at the top. Type a question, press Return, and Donna creates a project, opens a new chat and answers β€” no need to open a document first. The project takes its name from the chat.

  • ⌘D (Ctrl+D on Windows) opens Ask Donna from anywhere in the app, with your cursor already in the box. Press it again, or Escape, to close. It stays out of the way while a dialog is open, and in spreadsheets, where Ctrl+D still means fill-down.

  • Recent Projects now shows more of your work under a Welcome header, with a See all link when the list runs long.

  • The side rail is hidden on Home so the screen stays uncluttered. It's still there on every other screen.

A calmer colour scheme 🎨

Buttons and other chrome that used to read as dark green are now a near-black grey, so the interface recedes and your document doesn't. Lemon remains the accent in dark mode.

The Appearance menu has been redesigned with more colours to choose from.

Dark mode, properly dark πŸŒ™

The floating title-bar controls β€” back and forward, the window pills, the tab row β€” were washed out or invisible in dark mode. They've been redesigned with a shared shadow so they read clearly on any page, light or dark, including the loading screen and the Windows title bar. The selected tab now carries a lemon tint so you can see at a glance where you are.

In the document

  • First-line indent is now a button on the toolbar, rather than something you set by dragging the ruler.

  • Close without saving. Closing a document with unsaved changes now offers a clear way to discard them and move on.

Also fixed πŸ›

  • A Word document that can't be opened now says so, with an icon on the tab and an explanation, instead of sitting there blank.

  • PDF toolbars no longer linger over a Word document after reopening a saved workspace.

announcement

Published on September 28, 2026