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New folder colors in Quip! Organize your folders with 12 different colors to better structure your work.

It's easy to share externally with Quip. Get more work done with partners, vendors, and clients. Here's how.

See how you can automate common Quip tasks using Zapier. Create weekly documents, share Tweets in chat rooms, or get notified when Quip docs are shared in other apps — all without lifting a finger.

This webinar is perfect for both Quip beginners, who want to review the basics and discover impactful use cases, and Quip champions, who want best practices to onboard their team with Quip.

Join Quip experts, Ryan Anderson and Logan Randolph, for a live webinar to hear about important Quip basics and onboarding best practices.

We got a lot of questions about Quip at Dreamforce! If you're wondering about our Salesforce integrations, or Quip's pricing, this blog is for you.

Quip makes your team more productive and more fun with emoji autocomplete and unique slash commands.

It's been a little over a week since Dreamforce 2016 ended, and everyone's getting back into their grooves. Here are a few ways Quip can help you improve your daily routine, plan your next project, and bond with your team.

Quip's living documents and push notification system eliminates team email and makes everyone more productive.

Now that we're a part of the Salesforce family, we're going to be front and center at the world's largest tech conference. Are you ready? Because we are!

New to Quip: Presence! See when your teammates are viewing your docs and spreadsheets.

There are many areas where email fails—and no matter how painfully obvious that is to us, we still try to force it to do the things it's not built for.

We have some big news to share — Salesforce has agreed to acquire Quip!

Workplace roles might be more or less the same but the prevalence and ease-of-use of productivity tools have made those same jobs more streamlined, more collaborative, and more fun.

In theory the process is always linear and clear but in reality the approval chain can be messy. Quip helps overhaul the approval process and cut some of the horrific process inefficiencies.

We've added to our Quip-Slack integration with 8 new slash commands, including two that bring Slack messages into Quip.

We're excited to announce five major updates to Quip's search experience to help you find your work.

Ideas have half-lives; they start out radiating and over time lose steam. Quip was built to help people keep that new-project passion burning at every stage.

At Quip, we think working less dumb starts with talking less dumb. So let's circle back, move this silly language offline and be more productive.

Navigate between your team and personal Quip accounts. Quip is the ultimate tool for both personal and professional productivity.

Quip helps teams and companies of all sizes be more connected, productive, and innovative.

Quip hires Matt Cooley as its first Chief Revenue Officer to accelerate market growth.

Congratulations to the winners and runners-up of the Quip Engineering Diversity Scholarship!

New Way of work, work less dumb, less email, fewer meetings

How email is to blame for poor collaboration, lost knowledge and stalling productivity.

Introducing document outlines for Quip. Add a table of contents to your long-form docs.

Introducing Quip Spreadsheets for Teams: Build beautiful, useful spreadsheets with your team.

Quip integrates with Slack to bring living documents into your favorite Slack Channels.

Take your Quip experience offline using our native desktop apps for Mac and Windows and work fearlessly with new unsaved changes indicators.

How to build a great product that impacts the lives of millions of people with just a small engineering team

How Quip's Reactjs-based desktop app renders React components in native popovers.

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Announcing the release of the redesigned Windows app that is optimized for the Windows 10 operating system.

A unified search result view within the web and desktop interfaces across the entire document, comments and chat history.

Recipients will receive $5000 toward their education and will visit the Quip office in San Francisco for a full day of learning, mentorship, and meeting the team.

Quip now supports formatting for block quotes and pull quotes in documents.

You can now insert a horizontal rule in a Quip doc to create a break between paragraph elements.

You can now make your Quip sidebar visible in every view, so you can access it while you work in a document or spreadsheet.

With Show Edit History, it's now possible to see the history for an individual paragraph or section of your document, going all the way back to when it was created.

To make Quip even more flexible, you can now embed files from your computer directly into docs, task lists and spreadsheets.

Set a default font for all your Quip documents.

How does Quip prioritize which features or improvements to work on? Kevin Gibbs and I generally think about expanding the product in three areas...

In short, Quip is better than Google Docs because its unique combination of communication and writing enables your team to be productive without email.

With Quip’s new design, your documents keep you up-to-date instead of you keeping up with them.

Quip has raised a $30 million Series B from Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital. John Lilly from Greylock will be joining Quip’s board.

Quip now supports a full-featured list view for your desktop and folders.

Quip is now available natively on your Mac and PC. With the launch of Quip Desktop, Quip is the best productivity suite on every device, including your laptop.

You can now create a Quip document from any PDF file on your computer.

Onboarding is tricky. How do you bring in someone brand new and help them efficiently understand all the history, context, and processes of your organization?

With over 4,900 employees, the Larry Miller automotive division has substantial IT needs to keep the rubber on the road. They use Quip to keep their 30 person IT team connected across seven states.

With Chat Rooms, your team can talk about anything in Quip, whether or not it's attached to a document.

Find out more about each Quip theme and the typefaces we chose for each.

Today, we're making it easy to create a Quip doc straight from an email.

Did you know that keyboard shortcuts can save you up to one million hours per year?

For Assist, Quip acts like a Swiss Army knife. CEO, Shane Mac and his team like the simplicity of having one hub for everything.

We sat down with Cynthia, Nate, and Libby from the Path product team to learn more about their approach to product development and how they use Quip on a daily basis.

Bloggers, content marketers, and social media managers use Quip on a daily basis to write, edit, and approve content.

We recently sat down with Matt Galligan, CEO of Circa, to learn how one of the most interesting startups in the media space operates day-to-day with Quip.

Based on feedback from people who have been using Quip Spreadsheets since launch, we've added a bunch of new features to make the experience simpler and more powerful.

Formatting in Quip just got twice as fast.

Quip Spreadsheets is not a separate app or file type, but is instead seamlessly integrated into the Quip product experience.

Integrations enable you to connect hundreds of other products, including Dropbox, Zendesk, JIRA and more, directly to Quip.

OS 8 supports a number of new features that make Quip for iPhone and iPad much closer to our vision of the ideal mobile productivity suite.

With the revamped notifications system in Quip, you'll never miss an important update no matter how much Quip activity you have.

We've made notifications much richer and group chat simpler and faster.

We updated Quip chat so that it looks beautiful and consistent across your desktop, tablet, and phone.

The team signed up for Quip looking for an easy, lightweight solution to create and manage documents.

Quip 2.0 is the culmination of nearly a year of product feedback and improvements.

The Quip API provides full read-write access to your Quip documents and messages via a REST API.

You can now insert source code blocks as figures in Quip documents from your desktop.

How HP Storage Media adopted Quip as a standard platform for creating and sharing copywriting content.

Angela Bowman, VP at the Boise Modern Quilt Guild uses Quip to prepare our board meeting agendas and minutes.

Today, we're introducing the Like button on Quip in an effort to bring some of these positive social interactions into the workplace.

In this guest post, Kathleen Stetson, Co-Founder and CEO of Trill, explains how she and the Trill team got hooked on Quip.

Today, we're delighted to release [Quip 1.6] for Android, which adds a number of the most-requested features to the product.

We just rolled out a handful of useful new features for the desktop version of Quip.

We are excited to release Quip 1.6 for iPhone and iPad, which adds a number of the most requested features to the product.

Split Pea Seduction uses Quip for their production and project management schedules and tasks.

Quip for Android has been one of our most requested products since launch, a testament to the reach of the operating system.

Damon Gravina and Mandy Oser, of Ardesia, discuss how Quip has helped them to manage their business.

We've made it easier to get started with Quip, to start collaborating, and to stay organized after you've migrated all your documents.

Colorado Hazard Control uses Quip to communicate daily and centralize their company documents.

Seventh grade teacher describes her first experience using Quip in the classroom as a tool to develop a community of writers.

In Quip, our engineers have found (and built) a simple, yet flexible product that makes it easier for them to keep making great products.

Using Quip to accelerate the game design process across a distributed team.

You can collaborate on a Quip document with anyone, but it's easiest when that person is already in your Contacts.

A document inside a restricted folder is only accessible by the people with access to that folder.

We are excited to announce that Quip is now available in Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish, and Russian.

You can upload files to share with others, or download ones that people have sent to you. 

When I started working at Quip four months ago, one of the first things I noticed is that my email inbox was empty.

Our goal with this update is to make Quip the best looking and most natural word processor for iOS 7.

Chat Tabs enable you to easily view and respond to messages regardless of what document you're working on.

Emojis are a fun way to express what you mean through pictures and cartoons in messages in Quip.

We are excited to announce that Quip is now available in German, French, Spanish, Italian, and simplified Chinese.

Using Quip for packing, to-do-lists and shared travel itineraries.

One of the most memorable moments on Quip is when you get your first “open” notification.

SSFW uses Quip for almost everything, from planning future interviews, editorials, and meetings, to discussing ideas, concerns, and questions.

With the release of the Common Application two weeks ago, I finally ran out of excuses; it was time to start my college applications. 

In addition to a bunch of performance and stability improvements, we've added the most requested features from our first week of use.

Quip's formatting bar helps you create simple, beautiful documents.

How you can use Quip to organize all the details and logistics of purchasing and remodeling a home.

You can use @mentions in both documents and messages to create a dynamic link to any of your Quip documents.

A California biology teacher at discusses her experience with using Quip to manage a new curriculum.

Diffs get added to the thread every time an edit is made, showing what's changed, who made the change, and when they made it.

Quip's checklists are perfect for managing a team to-do list — assigning tasks, setting deadlines, and keeping track of everything that needs to be done to complete a project.

Douglas McGray, Pop-Up Magazine's editor-in-chief, shares how Pop-Up used Quip and the features they found most useful.

Quip is a modern word processor that enables you to create beautiful documents on any device — phones, tablets and the desktop.