Inspect a document
Choose Info or press Command–I to show file details, the document title, text statistics, and the selected Markdown profile. The title comes from a document heading, when available.
Content Language lets you choose the document's language when automatic detection is unsuitable. It affects the current window and its assistive reading information, not your file or the app's menu language.
If Apple Intelligence is available, the AI-generated section shows a suggested subject and summary, plus an author when the document identifies one. Not identified means no explicit author was found. You can select and copy these values or choose Try Again when generation is unavailable.
Review generated information before sharing an important document: it may be inaccurate, and long documents may be summarized from excerpts. PDF and Word exports reuse these values. Generation happens on your Mac; if it cannot finish, export continues without these optional fields. Your Mac account name is never used as the author.
On narrow screens, wide tables with column headings may appear as labeled rows. This keeps the full contents readable without horizontal scrolling. Compact numeric tables keep their columns; complex tables may still scroll.
Use the Copy icon above a table to copy the whole table for pasting into Microsoft Excel or Apple Numbers. The copy keeps rows and columns, even when the preview uses labeled rows. Code blocks use the same Copy icon and copy only the code.
Share or export a document
The toolbar's Share button shares the original file. To share a rendered copy, export a PDF or Word document first.
Page Settings
Choose File → Page Settings… (Shift–Command–P) to select paper size, orientation, and scale for PDF and Word exports from the current window. Choose OK to accept or Cancel to leave settings unchanged. The default is A4 portrait at 100%.
These settings last until the document window closes. They do not change the reading layout or individual diagram sharing. Word and PDF may place page breaks differently.
Export a PDF
Choose File → Export as PDF…, the toolbar's Export → Export as PDF…, or Command–Shift–E.
Text stays selectable, and supported diagrams and mathematics stay sharp when enlarged. Viewer zoom does not change the PDF layout. Headings become clickable contents entries; in Apple's Preview, choose View → Table of Contents. No extra contents page is inserted.
Supported document structure, language, and authored descriptions are retained. The result still depends on the source document's descriptions and structure; export is not a guarantee of complete accessibility.
Export a Word document
Choose File → Export as Word… or Export → Export as Word…, then save the .docx file.
Text, headings, lists, tables, and common equations remain editable. Headings work with Word's Navigation Pane and its table-of-contents command. Mermaid diagrams remain scalable graphics; their individual shapes are not editable Word flowchart objects.
Word controls reflow and pagination. Use PDF when a fixed page layout matters. Footnotes appear as linked notes at the end, and code keeps a monospace style without syntax colors. If an image or diagram cannot be exported, GlyphGlance explains the problem instead of silently omitting it.
Both formats include the document title and export dates. Optional Apple Intelligence information can be reviewed in Info before exporting. Word places the summary in its Comments property; Preview shows PDF Subject and Author, but does not display the separate summary.