# About pasting links (rich text?) feature

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-pasting-links-rich-text-feature/97083
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 13, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-pasting-links-rich-text-feature/97083 "2018-09-13T03:16:00Z")
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### Author: ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-pasting-links-rich-text-feature/97083/2 "2018-09-13T03:22:47Z")

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You can find more about this here:

> [@HTML/RTF pasting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913):
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> Is there an option, plugin, planned featured, or any hope for being able to paste HTML/RTF into Discourse? I’m asking – because my community has asked me repeatedly – for the ability to paste content from Google Docs, emails, Word documents, and the like into Discourse’s editor while preserving basic formatting, especially links. I’m not asking for a WYSIWYG editor. Most of my folks would be perfectly happy with an on-the-fly conversion into Markdown. Or whatever magic accomplishes this most b…

FYI, an easy way to avoid this is to use “Paste as plain text” from the right-click menu, or Ctrl+Shift+V.

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