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Chapter 8 · Guide · 1B Docs

Share, print, export to PDF and compatible formats

When a document is ready, share it, print it or turn it into a PDF from the ⋮ menu.

Share

Share in the ⋮ menu (or on a selected document on Home) sends the file with any app: email, WhatsApp, Drive, Bluetooth… If the document has unsaved changes, what you send includes them.

This is the only way a document leaves 1B Docs: the app has no Internet permission.

Export to PDF

  1. Open the document and tap ⋮ › Export to PDF.
  2. In presentations you choose how: Slides (one per page), handouts with 2, 4 or 6 per page, or Notes pages.
  3. Choose the folder and the name: the PDF keeps text and drawings sharp, ready to send or print.
Export to PDF options for a presentation.
Export to PDF options for a presentation.

Print opens Android's printing screen: choose a printer on your network or Save as PDF. Presentations propose landscape paper automatically.

Compatible formats

Texts: DOCX, DOCM, DOTX are opened and saved as they are; ODT, RTF and HTML are saved as a DOCX copy; DOC (Word 97-2003) is read-only.

Spreadsheets: XLSX, XLSM, XLTX and CSV/TSV are opened and saved as they are; XLS and ODS open as a copy that is saved as XLSX.

Presentations: PPTX, PPTM, PPSX and POTX are opened and saved as they are; PPT and ODP open converted and are saved as a PPTX copy.

Also PDF (with every tool in this guide) and plain text: TXT, Markdown, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, logs and code.

Saving never throws away what the app doesn't understand: the rest of the file (macros, charts, extra parts) is kept as it was.

Written for 1B Docs 1.0 on Android 8 or later, with real screenshots and invented example documents.