App
Writer
Problem / motivation
Writer can export a document as DOCX, but there's no way to bring one back in. If you have an existing Word document, the only option is to copy-paste it, which loses images and mangles tables. This makes it hard to move existing work into Writer, or to round-trip a document that was exported earlier.
Proposed solution
Add an "Import → DOCX" option to the document menu, next to the existing Export option.
Picking a .docx would convert it and load the content into Writer, keeping headings, lists, tables and images. Images would be uploaded as normal attachments rather than embedded inline. If the current document is empty, the content loads into it. Otherwise it opens in a new tab, so existing work isn't touched.
Conversion can happen fully in the browser (e.g. mammoth), the same way Sheets already does its import with xlsx — so no new backend endpoint is needed.
App
Writer
Problem / motivation
Writer can export a document as DOCX, but there's no way to bring one back in. If you have an existing Word document, the only option is to copy-paste it, which loses images and mangles tables. This makes it hard to move existing work into Writer, or to round-trip a document that was exported earlier.
Proposed solution
Add an "Import → DOCX" option to the document menu, next to the existing Export option.
Picking a .docx would convert it and load the content into Writer, keeping headings, lists, tables and images. Images would be uploaded as normal attachments rather than embedded inline. If the current document is empty, the content loads into it. Otherwise it opens in a new tab, so existing work isn't touched.
Conversion can happen fully in the browser (e.g. mammoth), the same way Sheets already does its import with xlsx — so no new backend endpoint is needed.