Release Notes

Updated as of April 2025


April 21, 2020

What's New

  • Organize your Favorites into Collections Keep your favorites tidy by bundling them into collections. If your list of favorites is taller than your sidebar, you’ll appreciate this one. (Also, for consistency, your favorites will always be contained to their drawer regardless of whether the sidebar is collapsed or expanded). Learn more. For Web, Mac, and Windows.

  • Selecting Multiple Cells in Spreadsheets: By holding down Cmd (on Mac) or Ctrl (on a PC) while clicking in a spreadsheet, you can select multiple cells to take action on. You can even drag after clicking to select multiple ranges. For Web and Desktop.

  • Quip for Customer 360 Features in VPC: Q4C360 features, such as live reports and live apps, are now fully supported in PCs. For Web, Mac, and Windows.

  • Sign into Your quip.com Account with Salesforce Sandbox SSO: Now you can easily sign into your quip.com or subdomain.quip.com account with your Salesforce Sandbox login credentials. Simply select “Sign in with Salesforce Sandbox” on the sign in page. For Web.

  • IFTTT Integration: Due to low usage, we have decided to turn off our IFTTT integration feature in chat.

April 14, 2020

What's New

  • API Scoped Tokens: When setting up an API key, admin users can set up scoped permissions to perform or restrict certain tasks for a user or admin. Admins can select the scopes in the Admin Console under Settings > Integration > API Keys. Required scopes are listed under each API call under the Quip API Documentation. Existing API calls will have all scopes turned on by default. For Web.

  • SCIM Token Generation: You can now generate your SCIM tokens within the Quip Admin Console. View your current token or setup a new SCIM token in the Admin Console under Settings > Integrations. For Web.

  • New Emoji in Reactions and Messages: You can now use Emoji 11, 12 and 12.1 characters in documents, messages and reactions. Now if your documents are too 🔥you can 🧯 if necessary. For Web, Mac, and Windows.

  • Live Salesforce Report “Change Owner”: The Change Owner feature allows users to take over ownership of a Salesforce report in Quip. We removed this feature in Quip due to low usage, but you can still change the ownership of a report in Salesforce. For Web, Mac, and Windows.

April 7, 2020

What's New

  • Data Reference Paste Menu: Now you can easily create a new data reference by simply copy and pasting a range of cells into another spreadsheet. When you perform the paste action, you will see a purple clipboard icon appear. Simply click on it and select the “Data Reference” option.

Bug Fixes

  • Embedded Spreadsheet Rendering Performance Improvements: We improved how quickly a spreadsheet embedded in a document will render. Previously, if you had a very large spreadsheet in a document it had trouble fully rendering, which would prevent you from interacting with the document. Now it should take a fraction of the time.

  • Formula Calculation Performance Improvements: Formulas are now calculated much more efficiently resulting in faster actions. You’ll see improvements around formulas that reference another cell, conditional formatting rules, changing options in a data validation dropdown, sorting, and other related calculations.

  • Read-only Documents are now Accessible to Keyboard and Screen Reader Users: Previously, it was difficult to navigate to an embedded spreadsheet and its cells when a document was read-only.

Versions: Web, Windows 7.8.2, Mac 7.8.1, iOS 7.8.1, Android 7.8.1

March 24, 2020

What's New

  • Subscripts and Superscripts: Format text in documents with subscripts and superscripts. Find these options in the Format menu or use the ⌘/Ctrl + , or ⌘/Ctrl + . keyboard shortcuts.

  • Group Folder Deletion: Admins can delete any group folder in the Group Folders section of the admin console.

  • Self-serve Unredacted Audit Access: There’s a new Unredacted Audit Access to All Members & Content permission, which you can grant using Admin Roles. Admins with this permission can view every document and every user at your site, export content sitewide, and otherwise have full access across your organization via the admin console. (If you’ve previously enabled these permissions for some admins or your entire site, you’ll see a section describing your Legacy Unredacted Audit Access under the Admin Roles section in Site Settings.)

March 17, 2020

What's New

  • Admin Roles: Admins can create custom permissions profiles and assign them to admins, to granularly control what parts of the admin console each person can view or edit. All current admins default to the Super Admin role. See the support article for more detail.

  • Custom Emails to New Users: When provisioning new users in the admin console, admins can control and customize the emails that get sent to new users.

Bug Fixes

  • Lookup Formula Changes and Improvements: We will now only throw an error for a legitimate circular reference. For example, if in cell C1 you had the formula “VLOOKUP(3, A1:B4, 2)” and B1 = C1. Previously, this formula would have an error because B1 is referencing C1 and C1 is referencing B1 (through the range A1:B4). Now we will not throw an error because C1 is actually not depending on the value of B1. Formulas this affects include: VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, LOOKUP, IF, IFERROR, IFNA, SUMIF, SUMIFS, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIF, AVERAGEIFS.

March 9, 2020

What's New

  • New Add/Edit Link UI: We refreshed the design for the Add/Edit Link flow to make it more user friendly. We also no longer require the user to input the http protocol for URLs. For Web and Desktop.

  • Message Forwarding: Messages can now be forwarded from one conversation to multiple other chats. If the viewer of the forwarded message has access to the source, they will see where the original message came from.

  • Redesigned Composer with GIFs and Stickers: The iOS composer has been modernized and we added the capability to add fun GIFs and stickers to your messages across your conversations. For Web, Desktop, and iOS.

Bug Fixes

  • Notification Updates:
    • Spreadsheet cell content is now included in email notifications. Previously, when you got an email notification for a comment in a cell, it only included the comment. Now, we include a preview of the cell so you know what is being commented on.
    • Opening a spreadsheet comment notification from an email or the notification drawer should now take you to the correct cell. Previously, if the comment was on a cell outside the viewport, clicking on the notification would not take you to the correct cell.

Versions: Web, Windows, Desktop, iOS

March 3, 2020

What's New

  • External User Management: Admins can disable publicly-shared links and remove external members from any document, even ones they’re not a member of, right from the External Sharing section of the admin console.

Versions: Web

February 25, 2020

What's New

  • Improved Chat Creation Flow: When composing a new chat message with others, you’ll see the previous conversation you’ve had with them, helping you have more context when crafting your message. Additionally, composing new chats feels faster on the web and desktop, thanks to the composer opening in a lightweight chat tab in the bottom-right.

  • Menu Reorganization: Sidebar items have been added, removed, and reorganized to help users access features, match user expectations, and maintain consistency across the app. You can also now compose new Quip documents from the menu.

Bug Fixes

  • Admin Console Updates: We changed the way we represent embedded elements like Live Apps and in-document spreadsheets on the Admin Console Insights page. Previously, we counted the number of times a member of your site added an embedded element to a Quip document. Now, we count the total number of embedded elements. You may notice the numbers of embedded elements are lower than they were previously, because we’re no longer counting elements that were deleted or removed from a document.

Versions: Web, Windows 7.5.1, Mac 7.5.1

February 18, 2020

What's New

  • Quip Governance: We’ve created a new set of auditing and reporting features, designed to help companies meet industry and organizational data requirements. Quip Governance is available as a standalone add-on, and also included in the Quip Shield package. Contact your account executive or customer success manager for more information. This is a new SKU available for customers with Quip Enterprise and above.
    • Data Retention: Create policies to manage how long your site retains content and programmatically delete stale content.
    • Data Hold: Add individual users to data holds within Quip, ensuring their content will not be deleted.
    • Reporting: Reporting on data retention and data hold policies
  • New API Event Types We’ve added new event types to the Events API, including events related to link-sharing, governance features, and more. See here for additional details. For Quip Shield and Events API subscribers.

  • Easily Update a Filter: When data in a filtered range changes that affects what is being filtered, you will now see a “Update Filter” button to quickly apply the filter to the new data. Previously, you had to turn off/on your filter in order for it to apply to your new data.

  • Videos in Messages: Videos used appear in conversations as attachments. Now they render and play right in the message.

  • Indentable Paragraphs: Press tab to indent the paragraph to make your documents easier to navigate and read. Hitting Shift-Tab outdents it.

  • Reactions: Have some fun and express yourself with more than just a thumbs up. Now you can react to messages using the emoji of your choice!

Bug Fixes

  • Spreadsheet Export improvements: We have improved our .xlsx file export functionality to support the following: hyperlinks, images, merged cells, column width, row height, text alignment, text color, and time format.

  • Resizable Images in Lists: Images can now be re-sized when they’re a part of lists. Use the drag handles just like you would for images in paragraph sections.

  • Renamed Admin Action Log: We’ve renamed the Admin Audit Log to the Admin Action Log.

February 11, 2020

What's New

  • Import Related Lists into a Quip document: Add record-specific related lists to a Quip document with the updated Salesforce List Live App. Embedded Quip documents dynamically pull the related lists of the records they’re embedded on to save your users time. Your users can easily stay on top of deals and cases with in-line editing, comments, and bi-directional syncing to Salesforce. Available for Quip for Customer 360 (formerly named Quip for Salesforce).

  • Get Summarized Salesforce Reports in Quip: Hide your report’s detail rows in Quip to improve report performance and to focus on key details like groupings, totals, subtotals, and record counts. Use Summary view to get a high-level overview of your report, making it easier to collaborate without getting stuck in the weeds. Available for Quip for Customer 360 on Web and Desktop.

  • Keep Your Quip Templates Up-to-date with Dynamic Live Apps: Add Salesforce Record and Salesforce List Live Apps to a Quip document embedded in a Salesforce record. Configure them to automatically update based on the record’s data. Available for Quip for Customer 360.

  • Dynamically Filter Live Salesforce Reports in Quip: Filter live Salesforce reports in Quip using your report’s custom filters. Create a standard template from a Quip document and add it to a Salesforce record using the Quip Document component. Reports added to an embedded Quip document dynamically filter based on the record’s data. Available for Quip for Customer 360 on Web and Desktop.

  • Use Salesforce Record and Salesforce List Live Apps without Reconnecting: After users connect their Salesforce orgs to Quip, they can add live Salesforce data to a Quip document without needing to reconnect. No more logging in to each live app separately. They can even connect multiple Salesforce orgs to one Quip site, making it easier to keep cross-cloud collaboration in context. Available for Quip for Customer 360.

  • Synced Sharing for Salesforce Sandbox Orgs: Admins can connect Salesforce Sandbox Orgs in the Quip Admin Console to try out synced sharing capabilities in a test environment. Available for Quip for Customer 360.

  • Restrict Importing and Exporting: Admins can now restrict importing and exporting documents from their Quip site. Import restrictions can be applied either to all platforms or just importing on mobile devices, and include importing from other services, as well as the local device. Export restrictions disable downloads and exports to any filetype.

  • Bigger Comments: We've increased the size of the comment popovers to improve the experience of reading and writing conversations via comments. Available on Web and Desktop.

Bug Fixes

  • User List Export Improvements: We have improved the user list exporting functionality for large companies. Instead of directly downloading the .csv of users, we’ll send you an email with a link to the .csv to avoid timeouts and other errors. The experience is unchanged for smaller organizations.

Versions: Web, Windows 7.4.1, Mac 7.4.0, iOS 7.4.1, Android 7.4.1