Collaborate on Paper docs

In Dropbox Paper, you can collaborate with people in the following ways:

• Mention them in the doc and in comments.
• Comment on text and images.
• Create and assign to-dos.

Not using Paper yet? Learn how Dropbox allows easy team content collaboration.

Mention someone

Mention a colleague anywhere in your Paper doc by entering @ (the at symbol) and then their name.

If the person you mention has a Dropbox account, their name is shortened to reflect the name on their account.

If you click a hyperlinked name, a dropdown appears. You can then search every shared doc that person created.

Leave comments

Comment on a doc

1. Highlight a line of text to bring up the formatting toolbar.
2. Click 🗀 (comment). You can mention a colleague in your comment to send a notification by entering @ (the at symbol) and then their name.
3. Click Post.

Comment on a spot of an image

1. Click the image that you'd like to comment on.
2. Click 🗀 (comment) in the top right.
3. Click the section of the image you'd like to comment on.
   • You can also click and drag to select a wider area of the image.
4. Enter your comment. 
5. Click Post.

Link directly to a comment in a Paper doc

1. In a Paper doc, click the comment you want to link to.
2. Click the timestamp (for example, 2 hours ago).
   • The URL in your web browser will change. 
3. Copy this URL and paste it wherever you'd like to share a comment.

When someone clicks this URL, they'll go directly to your chosen comment.

Suggest edits in a Paper doc

You can suggest changes to text in a Paper doc without directly editing the original text. The document owner or other collaborators can then review the suggestion and accept or reject it.

To suggest an edit:

1. Highlight the text you want to suggest a change to.
2. Click the pencil with a dashed line (suggest changes) icon.
3. Enter your suggested text.
4. Click Post.

You’ll see your suggestion as new text and the original text will be struck through.

You can also discuss a suggested edit in its suggestion thread.

To review a suggestion:

1. Click the suggestion you want to review.
2. Choose Accept or Reject.
   • Accepting the suggestion applies the suggested change.
   • Rejecting the suggestion removes the suggested change from the document.

Create and assign to-dos

You can create to-dos that need to be accomplished and assign them to colleagues. Learn how to create to-dos.

See the author

Attribution shows you who wrote a section of a document. The name of the person who wrote a part of a document is shown beside the text. This happens even if you copy and paste from one Paper doc to another.