I know that markdown, html, bbcode, etc. is accepted. I just wanted to copy paste a document from google docs or microsoft word into a post in Discourse without losing the formatting. Is there a way to do this or a plugin?

Sure, I am able to replicate the issue you are describing. I am not sure why the bold and links are not copy/pasting properly as they usually do - but do know that hierarchical lists are handled differently enough in markdown that you will be better off just writing them directly in markdown. You wi…

Yes I tried it. Here is a sample Google docs that has a basic list of items: Warring Guide - Google Docs I copy pasted this and lost all my formatting. I tried exporting to html and then copy pasted and same thing.

Can you make that document public? I’d like to try it. I just did a quick test myself of google docs and can confirm that links and bold etc did not transfer over as I would have expected, though bullet points did.

The link is public now. Keeping the hierarchical structure with spacing is what I’m most concerned of. Bold I can do myself. I. Item 1 A. Item 2 1. Item 3

I see. Thank you. I do have DiscoTOC. I would like a mixture of both that you showed. The markdown showed the tabs beneath each lower level and the DiscoTOC decreased the font size gradually. I tried using this: https://word2md.com/ It didn’t work but at least it’s a start I can use to further mod…

To create nested lists using markdown, I believe we need 4 spaces or a tab. Tab doesn’t seem to work while in the composer. I was able to do what I wanted with markdown. I just wanted to know if the tab button not working is something intentional and why it doesn’t work.

Copy pasting nested lists from Word into a post

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Falco (Falco) July 23, 2020, 5:20am 2

Did you try it?

Copying and pasting into the composer from a office suite software works out of the box.

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Copy pasting nested lists from Word into a post

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