# Copy paste from google docs breaks @ mentions

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copy-paste-from-google-docs-breaks-mentions/95294 "2018-08-21T14:06:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copy-paste-from-google-docs-breaks-mentions/95294/1 "2018-08-21T14:06:19Z")

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I’m not sure this is an actual bug or if anything can easily be done about it, but in our community we ran afoul of a behavior that is unexpected. Many members work offline on posts, then copy/paste them from e.g. google docs into discourse. In most cases, the formatting and syntax transfers correctly and beautifully. It’s not 100% perfect, though, so I have been nudging colleagues to sanity check after posting and also doing some ninja edits myself on their posts to fix formatting and syntax.

@ mentions transfer as hyperlinks that look correct in the preview and in the published post, but are actually not @ mentions. So they sneak through unnoticed.. the screenshot below is of an important announcement that should have been delivered to the email inboxes of all staff, but was not. It was only a few weeks later when troubleshooting that we noticed the syntax was off. Oops.

 ![16%20AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/7/67c94f959648229e37ee7235911138c907c0466f.png)

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