Guide · 1B Docs
1B Docs user guide
Everything the app does, explained with real tasks: opening an attachment, writing a letter, adding up a column, presenting slides or signing a PDF. Names in bold are exactly what you see in the app.
Written for 1B Docs 1.0 on Android 8 or later, with real screenshots and invented example documents.
Chapters
Read them in order or jump to what you need. Each chapter stands on its own.
- Chapter 1
Getting started
Access to your documents, the four tabs, opening files and attachments, search and settings.
- Chapter 2
Create and save
New documents, templates, notes, saving, the default folder and recovering changes.
- Chapter 3
Text documents
Page and mobile view, outline and find, editing, formatting, styles and inserting images and tables.
- Chapter 4
Spreadsheets
Moving around, editing cells, formulas, formatting, sorting and filtering, and sheets.
- Chapter 5
Presentations
Slides, editing text, inserting slides and shapes, the slide sorter, presenting and notes.
- Chapter 6
Read and sign PDFs
Reading and searching, annotating, filling in forms, signing and protected PDFs.
- Chapter 7
PDF tools
Merge, split, organise pages, compress, password, images to PDF and PDF to text or images.
- Chapter 8
Share, print and formats
Sharing, printing, exporting to PDF and the formats the app opens and saves.
- Chapter 9
Common problems
Documents that don't appear, files that won't open, passwords, copies, recents and lost changes.
Common tasks
Private by design
Your documents stay on your device
1B Docs has no Internet permission at all: no account, no ads, no tracking and no cloud. A document only leaves your device when you share it.