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Block Quote:

In the old version of GoogleDocs there was an option to block quote paragraph, which would create a nice dotted box for the paragraph and make it like a section in a very big doc.

Did anyone find a way to get that functionality with the newer docs, is there any plugin, css for it ?

This link says that there is a way to revert back to old version of docs by Settings (upper right) / Documents / Editing / un-check the box for starting with new formats. I couldnt find that. The link is a year old

Folding:

In Lotus Notes there was this nice option of folding. You get a small triangle that you can use for folding section of texts. Is it possible to do that in Google Docs and even Outlook for that sake ?

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To workaround all the browser inconsistencies, Google switched over to a SVG rendering model for Docs instead of using HTML. That's why the new version of docs doesn't support raw HTML/CSS editing. I have already raised the issue (and received a response) with Google on GetSatisfaction.com here getsatisfaction.com/google/topics/…. I'm hoping, with enough support we can get them to bring the old format back under a different name. – Evan Plaice Feb 16 at 7:56
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I was able to hack this a little:

You can open an old document [which you have still not migrated to the new version] , then go to File => make a copy. Now rename the document and you have a new doc in the old format :). Back to happy days of block quote !!.

This might not last longer though , if google changes something.

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Hopefully they'll bring the old format back. Until then, this is the only option. If you follow my link to GetSatisfaction.com they're aware that a lot of their users prefer the old format and from talking to the Google's rep, it doesn't sound like they're going to disable the old version any time soon. – Evan Plaice Feb 16 at 7:57
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