Change Default Page Size to US Letter

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My OnlyOffice is defaulting to A4 page size. I would like to change this to default to US Letter since I am in the United States. I have searched around the help forums but not found a solution. How can I change the default page size?

Thank you to anyone who can offer assistance!

Only Office for Desktop
OS: MacOS Monterray
Browser version: Firefox

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Hello @ossian1898
We are checking the situation. I’ll update this thread when we have something to share.

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Hello @ossian1898
Sorry for the late reply.
We have checked the situation and we added your suggestion to internal tracksystem (internal number - 59552). We have started working on it.

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Being able to change the unit of measurement is great. But missing the ability to change the default page size, not so fun. I’m on a Linux box. Thus, the following is not tested on other platforms.

In a terminal window, run onlyoffice-desktopeditors --new-document-templates. That will create OnlyOffice templates in $HOME/Templates/.

Open each template file, change the page size, and save.

$HOME/Templates/New Document.docx
$HOME/Templates/New form template.docxf
$HOME/Templates/New Spreadsheet.xlsx

Copy the updated templates to the application location.
Note: Change the language (in my case, en-US).

SRC=$HOME/Templates
DEST=/opt/onlyoffice/desktopeditors/converter/empty/en-US/

cp "$SRC/New Document.docx"       "$DEST/new.docx"
cp "$SRC/New form template.docxf" "$DEST/new.docxf"
cp "$SRC/New Spreadsheet.xlsx"    "$DEST/new.xlsx"

This works for me. Creating a new Document or Spreadsheet is set to the US Letter size.

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You know, it is now 2024. I pulled the latest OO down to this Windows 10 machine and it still defaults to A4!!!

In America, nobody uses A4.

Having to manually change this for each and every document is causing a whole lot of people to abandon this product.

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Hello @seasoned_geek
We are working on the mentioned suggestion in this thread. Please accept our apologies for the length of the situation. We will update this thread once we have somethin to share.

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They finally fixed this for version 8.2 on macOS.

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Thank you for your check!
However, we are still working on the reported bug to provide the solution for Windows platform as well. We will update this thread once we have something to share.