Strange copy/paste behavior from MS Word

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I’ve encountered some strange behavior when copying and pasting text from MS Word - I don’t paste from Word very often so I’m not sure if this is a new thing or not.

If I paste text from Word:

  1. the width of the pasted text is constrained regardless of the size of the text box. This was driving me insane because I assumed it was a special character or forced line breaks but those didn’t seem to be the source of the issue. Fortunately, I found the solution here: https://discourse-test.omnigroup.com/t/resizing-text-box-seems-simple-but-the-text-isnt-wrapping-to-new-box-size/43331 but it does seem strange that the arbitrary tab stop from Word would be copied over.

  2. the other weird behavior is that on paste I get two items. The first is the tabbed-constrained text box I just described, but the other is a bitmapped graphic version of the text. One is piled on top of each other:

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Even if issue #1 is the intended behavior, issue #2 definitely seems weird.

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Hello there. Sorry for the difficulty. To work around this issue, you can create a shape first, and put the text tool in the shape. Otherwise, you can delete the extra image and just keep the text.

Thanks,
Lanette

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Yeah, I’ve just been deleting the extra image, but I’m assuming it’s a bug right?

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Unless you really want to try to work with MS Word’s formatting - which is strange. I have a workaround that I use a lot. I copy the text from MS Word, then I paste into translate.google.com, the copy it from there and paste it into whatever app I am using, this removes the formatting.

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Yes, this is a known bug. Sorry if that was unclear.