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Use ProPlans on a tablet

On a tablet, ProPlans uses the extra room: lists sit beside what you open from them, and the menu stays in reach. The layout follows the size of the window rather than the device, so a large foldable phone opened out gets the same.

  • The menu stays open down the side of the project list, instead of sliding over it. Inside a project, the plans keep the whole width.
  • The project list fits two or three projects to a row.
  • Sign-in, your profile, Settings and forms keep to a comfortable width in the middle, and so do panels that slide up from the bottom, such as the sheet’s layers and the markup editor.
  • Rows have a ••• button with the actions you’d otherwise reach by swiping or pressing and holding: conversations, notifications, people in Contacts, documents and plan sheets.

Messages shows your conversations on the left and the one you open on the right, upright or held wide. Documents and Task Lists do the same on a wide screen, such as a tablet held wide: the open document, or the open list’s tasks, sit beside the list. Tap another to switch; its row is marked. Until you pick a conversation, Messages asks you to.

If the window gets narrower than a phone, the open item becomes a screen of its own, and widening it puts it back beside the list. What you were typing comes with it.

Every screen turns with the tablet, and an iPad works in all four orientations, upside down included. Markups, notes and task pins stay on the same spot of the sheet, and a sheet you’d zoomed into stays where you were.

Split View, Stage Manager and split screen

Section titled “Split View, Stage Manager and split screen”

Put ProPlans beside another app and it takes the layout that fits its share of the screen: in a narrow slot it works as on a phone, and in a wide one as on a tablet. You can drag the divider while you work. Nothing you had open or typed is lost as the layout changes. Android’s split screen and freeform windows work the same way.

Open a foldable phone and ProPlans takes the tablet’s layouts; close it and they become the phone’s. Folding, unfolding or turning it keeps you where you were: the same screen, scrolled to the same place, with what you typed and the keyboard still up. Half folded, nothing you need sits on the crease.

On an iPad with a keyboard, Esc closes what’s in front, Command-F jumps to the search box and Tab moves to the next box. See Keyboard shortcuts. With the iPad’s keyboard floating, the boxes for your email code and phone number open the full keyboard on its numbers.