Apr 28, 2020
Published (to the web) Google document is suddenly displayed in a horrible way.
Hi there. I have a problem. I made a big document and published it on the web. It was displayed just like I wanted and then 12 hours ago, the text (and this now happens with all my other documents as well) was displayed in the center with big margins to the left and right. The text is displayed far smaller than it used to be and worse: there are these big banners up (name of the document and this useless info that the document is updated every 5 minutes) and down (with a link to google drive and a report option). If I use Ctrl so I can enlarge the text and read the text in a better way, then those banners become screen-filling big, while in the past it just made the text bigger. The whole readability and attraction of this feature of google doc are down the drains for me this way. Terrible. Can I do anything so it is displayed like it used to? Normal? I hope somebody can help me out.
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Last edited Apr 28, 2020
Apr 28, 2020
i have a 'work around' which will restore how a published google doc looks for you, to match the old style.
do you use a desktop computer for google docs?
if you use either FIREFOX or GOOGLE CHROME browser, then please install the 'Ublock origin' extension/addon
- chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en-GB
this is an adblocking extension, but we will be using it to change the styling of the page
open the extensions settings and go to the 'my filters' tab and paste in the following lines
docs.google.com###header:style(position: static !important)docs.google.com###header:style(height: 30px !important)
docs.google.com###interval:style(visibility: hidden; !important) docs.google.com###footer
docs.google.com###contents:style(padding: 10px 1% 50px 1% !important)
what these do:
- the header will stay at the top
- the header will only be 30 px high
- the header will not display the 'updated every 5 minutes'
- the footer will not be displayed
- the main text no longer has excess margins to the left and right
example image:
(only applies to you, visiting the page with the adblock set up and active. you can disable it by clicking on the icon if required too)
i hope this helps, i also find this change to the google docs publish a baffling step back in usability and presentation.
Last edited Apr 28, 2020
Original Poster Ben Bennemans marked this as an answer
Apr 28, 2020
@Ben Bennemans
You can either experiment with increasing the 30 pixel value of this line
docs.google.com###header:style(height: 30px !important)
E.g. 50
docs.google.com###header:style(height: 50px !important)
Or just hide the header entirely by changing it to
docs.google.com###header
Cheers
Last edited Apr 28, 2020
Original Poster Ben Bennemans marked this as an answer
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Gill, would you like to escalate this (since you're experiencing it as well)?
It sounds like Ben is having problems with non-published documents in addition to the published one. Is that the case, Ben, or is this only affecting your published files?
~Jo
Google Product Expert Volunteer (not a Google employee)
Apr 28, 2020
Yes, i'll do that Jo.
I even affects landscape pages, wrapping lines far too short. Odd.
Apr 28, 2020
[i've reported a similar post here #link]
the new look has a forced 20% margin on both the left and right of the content area which was not previously present, if you look at it with browser dev tools.
Last edited Apr 28, 2020
i have a 'work around' which will restore how a published google doc looks for you, to match the old style.
do you use a desktop computer for google docs?
if you use either FIREFOX or GOOGLE CHROME browser, then please install the 'Ublock origin' extension/addon
- chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en-GB
this is an adblocking extension, but we will be using it to change the styling of the page
open the extensions settings and go to the 'my filters' tab and paste in the following lines
docs.google.com###header:style(position: static !important)docs.google.com###header:style(height: 30px !important)
docs.google.com###interval:style(visibility: hidden; !important) docs.google.com###footer
docs.google.com###contents:style(padding: 10px 1% 50px 1% !important)
what these do:
- the header will stay at the top
- the header will only be 30 px high
- the header will not display the 'updated every 5 minutes'
- the footer will not be displayed
- the main text no longer has excess margins to the left and right
example image:
(only applies to you, visiting the page with the adblock set up and active. you can disable it by clicking on the icon if required too)
i hope this helps, i also find this change to the google docs publish a baffling step back in usability and presentation.
Last edited Apr 28, 2020
Original Poster Ben Bennemans marked this as an answer