# 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, 2:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copy-paste-from-google-docs-breaks-mentions/95294/4 "2018-08-21T14:37:09Z")

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OK - thanks @supermathie I can confirm this is a workflow problem not a functionality problem. Nicely diagnosed! 🌱 And appreciate the time taken to help figure it out. Many thanks.

Here’s what the google doc source looks like - and the @ mention is a fully baked hyperlink. So someone most likely wrote it in the composer on discourse and copy/pasted from the preview into google docs.

![56%20AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/3/03f510c9bb795731ee944016849f0eaf3eedbe4d.png)

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