With this release, we’ve improved performance in Google Docs.

Bug fixes

• Slow loading of Acrolinx Sidebar in Google Docs - In this release, We fixed an issue where the Acrolinx Sidebar in Google Docs was taking significantly longer than expected to load.

Improvements

• Rewriting the Google Sheets Integration - We’ve renewed our Google Sheets integration for a more seamless experience. This upgrade addresses lookup and replacement features, along with pending security updates. This update leverages the latest technology to deliver improved reliability, performance, and security. You can now expect a smoother workflow, faster processing, and easier maintenance.

This release comes with a couple of small bug fixes.

Bug fixes

• Issues with highlight and replace - "Get suggestions" didn't highlight and replace correctly in Google Docs and Google Slides. This is now fixed.
• Sidebar won't load - The Sidebar wasn't loading with certain Sidebar versions. We've fixed this.

This release fixes a small issue in Google Slides.

Bug fix

Highlighting issue - In some cases, Acrolinx didn't highlight the correct issues. This primarily affected text in objects and tables.

Great news! We've made a small update to Google Slides

Improvement

Updated Sidebar version - Google Slides now uses the latest version of the Acrolinx Sidebar.

This service release fixes a couple of bugs in Acrolinx for Google Docs.

Platform support

We recommend that you use:

• Acrolinx Platform version 2022.05 or later

Bug fixes

• Issue card grayed out - We've fixed an issue where some Sidebar cards would gray out as soon as you clicked them.
• Wrong text inserted into document - In some cases, Acrolinx would insert the wrong text when you tried to replace an issue. This is no longer the case.

We’re releasing a service release to address a couple of bugs that caused the Sidebar cards to gray out and fixed another bug where Acrolinx had issues handling contractions in tables.

Platform Support

We recommend that you use:

• Acrolinx Platform version 2021.12.1 or later.
• An updated Content Profile — to take advantage of these improvements, you'll need to get the latest Google Docs Content Profile.

Dropped Support

We've dropped support for the following:

• Acrolinx versions 1.4.2 and 1.5.0.

Bug Fixes

Sidebar Cards Grayed Out After Clicking on Next Card

When you clicked a new Sidebar card, Acrolinx would invalidate and gray out the previous Sidebar card. This made it impossible to click on any previous issue and find your mistake in the text. This bug was due to empty lists. We fixed how we handle empty lists so you shouldn’t run into this issue again.

Fixed Issues with Mailto Links and Link

Acrolinx had issues handling mailto links and links. When a user clicked on issue cards that had mailto links and links, it would cause the Sidebar cards to gray out when you clicked on them. We fixed this issue along with other problems with highlighting results.

Highlight and Replacement Broken in Tables

If you had a word contraction issue in a table, Acrolinx would mis-highlight and replace the issue, breaking the word. We fixed how we handle issues in tables, which fixed this issue.

Big changes this time. To optimize your checking experience, we've rewritten the Google Docs integration. After weeks of hard work, we’re very excited to release the new and improved version. In other news, we've renamed "Google Suite" to "Google Workspace" to reflect Google’s brand change.

Platform Support

Acrolinx for Google Workspace should work with older platform versions. However, we recommend you use:

• Acrolinx Platform 2021.12 or later.
• A new Content Profile — to take advantage of these improvements, you'll need to get the latest Google Docs Content Profile.

Improvements

Exclude Text from Your Acrolinx Check

Acrolinx now extracts font details! This means Acrolinx gets more contextual data to apply the perfect guidance for your content.

You can now, for example, prevent Acrolinx from checking content with a certain font configuration. This is especially handy if you don't want Acrolinx to check code snippets.

Faster Issue Highlighting

Acrolinx for G Suite could be quite slow. Good news! We’ve optimized the time that it takes for Acrolinx to highlight your issues when you click on a Sidebar card. Acrolinx now highlights issues around 50% faster.

Fast Replacement of Issues

Not only was highlighting slow in past versions, but so was issue replacement. With our rewrite, we’ve also improved issue replacements. You can expect single-word replacements to be around 40% faster and “replace all occurrences” to be around 90% faster.

We've collected feedback and ironed out all the wrinkles, so we're proud to announce our official release of Acrolinx for Google Slides. Of course, we haven't forgotten our other Google integrations — we've added a few tweaks to Acrolinx for Google Sheets and Google Docs as well.

Platform Support

Acrolinx for Google Workspace should work with older platform versions. However, we recommend you use:

• Acrolinx Platform version 5.3.1 or later

Improvements

Check Only Selected Elements in Google Slides

In our Beta version of Acrolinx for Google Slides, you had no choice but to check the entire presentation each time. Now, you can check an individual slide or elements within a slide — Acrolinx only checks what you selected. This includes slides, speaker notes, text boxes, tables, or word art.

One thing to note: you might notice that it takes just as long to check a single text box as it does to check an entire presentation. Acrolinx still needs to process the whole presentation behind the scenes but then discards anything that wasn't selected. We agree that this isn't ideal behavior for large presentations, but we couldn't find a way around the issue for now. In most cases, we hope it won't be too noticeable.

Insert Suggested Replacements in More Parts of a Slide

Usually, you can click a replacement suggestion in the Sidebar and Acrolinx updates the text in your document. In the Beta version, it wasn't possible to use this feature on text in "Alt text". Alt text isn't immediately visible but helps to describe elements such as videos, images, and lines. We've overcome this limitation and you can now use the Sidebar to automatically fix issues and Alt text.

Find Issues in Locked Content

We call content "locked" if you can't use Acrolinx to navigate you to and update the text in that content. For example, the text in Google WordArt is "locked" for Acrolinx. But it's still useful to know about issues in this content even if you can't select replacements. When Acrolinx finds issues in locked content, the issues are displayed in a locked Sidebar card. You can still click a replacement suggestion, and Acrolinx will highlight the entire WordArt. Then you’ll have to edit the WordArt and type the replacement yourself. Of course, this is still better than not knowing about the issue at all.

Issue cards for speakers notes will also appear locked. But you'll have to navigate to the location and make type the replacement yourself.

Find Issues in Merged Table Cells and Grouped Text Boxes on a Slide

Elements that are merged or grouped are tricky to check. That's why the Beta version of Acrolinx for Google Slides didn't check these elements properly. Now, we've extended the integration so that Acrolinx can find issues in merged table cells or in grouped text boxes. In the case of grouped text boxes, Acrolinx can't highlight the exact issue text but still highlights the text box that contains the issue text. This is still a great improvement on the Beta version of Acrolinx for Google Slides.

Known Issue

Issue Text is Hard To See in Slides with Dark Backgrounds

Acrolinx highlights issue text in the system default color — usually this color is light gray. If your slides have a dark background, you won't be able to see gray highlighting clearly. In Google Slides, it's a challenge to detect dark backgrounds and automatically adapt the highlighting color. However, we haven't given up yet and are still working on a solution.