Testing rich text copy/paste

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Hello folks,

On beta, we’re testing rich text copying from the clipboard and via drag-and-drop.

Previously, when a text was copied/pasted via the clipboard, Checkvist converted it into plain text and after that created list items out of it.

Now, we’re trying to preserve text formatting, like bold/links/images etc. It should be useful when using copy/paste from web pages, LLM chats, code snippets.

We would appreciate any help with testing this.

Please let us know if something doesn’t work,
Best,
KIR

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Kir, I created a test doc in word, 5 lines each font different - i.e.larger.

Created a new entry in a list, pasted it, and the text was all the same.

Checked by pasting into a new Word doc and the text was the same as the original, different font sizes.

Tried saving as a single enry and multiple entries - no change.

Hope this helps or….am I missing something? Is Word not the expected source maybe?

Rgds

Chris J

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Hello Chris,

Thank you for trying it!

I don’t have MS Word locally, the idea is to support bold/italic/lists formatting.
Could you try bold/italic text from MS Word document - will it preserve formatting?
I hope it works (on beta).

It works for Google Docs in my case. Or when I copy-paste text from web pages.
For Word documents, I’d expect bold/italic text, headers like H1/H2 etc. to work.

Thanks again!
KIR

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KIR,

Please see below

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Original text for 1-4

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Original text from web page for 5 and 6

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Version I am using: https://beta.checkvist.com/checklists/711064

Hope this helps.

Let me know if you would like me to try anything else

Rgds

Chris J

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Hello Chris,

I’m afraid I don’t see the pictures you attached :frowning:
No idea why this happened. Maybe you could try again?

Thank you,
KIR

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I’m not seeing any difference with text copied from Google Doc - bold and italic do not show in CheckVist. (I am using the beta version.)

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OK, I probably know what I miss. You start editing first and then paste, right? Unfortunately, it works only if you paste without starting editing :frowning:
Or if you drag-and-drop text into Checkvist.

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Folks, I’ve corrected it to convert rich text to Markdown in edit mode, too. So now it should work both when you edit a list item, and paste data from somewhere, or when you just paste data in selection mode.
Thanks for pointing out at this issue!