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How to bring in a Word document

Open a .docx file with Open, or drag it onto the window. Its text comes in as text you can edit, each ChemDraw drawing embedded in it as a structure you can edit, and its pictures and tables too, in one group named after the file.

On a Mac, Ctrl is Cmd.

Steps

  1. Press Ctrl+O (Open a file) and choose a .docx file, or drag it from your computer onto the window. Dropped on the canvas, it goes beside what is already there.

  2. Athanor reads the document and says what it brought in, for example "notes.docx: 2 paragraphs, 1 picture, 1 table, in one group named for the file in Layers."

    A Word document opened in Athanor: its heading and paragraph as text, a picture of caffeine, and its table, in a Layers group named notes.docx.A Word document opened in Athanor: its heading and paragraph as text, a picture of caffeine, and its table, in a Layers group named notes.docx.

  3. Edit it like anything else on the canvas: change the text, move the picture, or open the group in Layers to work on one part.

What comes in

In the Word file In Athanor
Headings and paragraphs Text you can edit
A ChemDraw drawing embedded in the document A structure you can edit, as if you had drawn it
A picture A picture
A table A table

Anything Athanor cannot bring in is skipped, and the notice says what was left out.

Tip

A ChemDraw drawing pasted into Word keeps the structure inside it. Opening the Word file in Athanor is a quick way to get structures back out of an old report as chemistry, not as pictures.

See also How to open files and How to open a PowerPoint deck.

Files and formatsHow to open structure filesPress Ctrl+O (File › Open a file) and pick the file. An SDF with three compounds puts all three on the page, each named from the file.Figures, diagrams and documentsHow to add a picture or file to the pageChoose Insert › Upload a file and pick the file. A picture is placed on the page and listed in Layers by its file name.

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Last updated Nov 12, 2026