How to Use Dropbox Paper

Quick summary

Dropbox Paper is a collaborative document editor built into Dropbox that lets teams create, format, and share rich documents in real time. This guide walks you through opening Paper, creating a new doc, adding content, and inviting collaborators — all from within your Dropbox account.

Steps

1. Log in to Dropbox.com and click the grid icon in the top-right corner.
2. Select Paper from the app menu.
3. Click Create Paper Doc to start a new document.
4. Click inside the document and start typing to add text.
5. Drag and drop images from your computer into the document, or use the Insert menu and select Image.
6. Use the insert options to add a table, code block, or quotes to your document.
7. Click the Share button in the top-right corner of the document.
8. Enter email addresses of collaborators or share a link to give others access to the document.