Preserving formatting from copy/paste Google Docs

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Hello!

I am writing topic posts in Google Docs. When I copy and paste them into Markdown I am losing the formatting for bold and italics.

I’ve tried searching Discourse Meta discussions but haven’t found a solution. Is there any easy workaround for this without needing to manually edit once it is in Markdown?

Thanks!
Henry

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Hi! you could try:

or copy/paste your text in another editor (libreofffice writer works) and from there bold and italics are preserved.

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Hey Benjamin, thanks so much for these ideas.

I downloaded LibreOffice and just copy/paste from Google Docs > LibreOffice > Markdown and it works well.

EDIT: I also just tried the github convert and it works even better! Perfect solution.

Appreciate the help my friend!

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