How to Use Spreadsheet and Table Layouts in Quip Documents

How to Insert a Table or a Spreadsheet into a Quip Document

Spreadsheets and tables can be embedded in documents and can be viewed from two different layouts, Document and Spreadsheet. To view the two layout options, click Document > Advanced at the top left. 


To insert a table into your document, type @table. Inserting a table as opposed to a spreadsheet reduces the UI of the sheet so that the row and column headers are not included. Tables and spreadsheets have the same functionality.  In Quip, tables and spreadsheets are almost the same except that there is a header when you insert a table. Once you create/insert a table, it cannot be converted to a spreadsheet and vice versa. 

Note:

Excel spreadsheet can be manually copy pasted into Quip but some of the Excel properties e.g. font size, color, etc. are not inherited in Quip spreadsheet.

To add a column to an existing spreadsheet, right click a field or a header of the spreadsheet in Quip and choose "Insert Column Left", "Insert Column Right", etc. 

The Text wrap setting is overridden if the cells are manually sized before content is added. This applies to manually created and templated spreadsheets. To wrap, highlight the cell(s) and choose Edit > Resize Row or Column (depending on how the cell was sized in the first place) >  Fit to Data > Apply.