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I've copied some sample code from Visual Studio 2013 (in Microsoft Windows 8).
I'm doing ctrl + v to paste into an online Google Document.
The paste loses all the formatting and text.
Is there anyway to get around this?
We don't want to paste a screenshot, as we want editable text which retains color + formatting.
Copy of a Comment by Alexander Taylor Oct 27 '15 at 22:34 :
i notice that it only happens when cells contain newlines and possibly other special characters. adding the quotes might be done by the program you paste into -- each program may have the ability to convert tabular data into non tabular data as it wishes. if i paste into Google Keep, i see no quotes, but if i paste into my text editor, i get quotes. perhaps you can try first pasting into Google Keep, then copy again, and paste into destination program.
I do not get what the fuss is about. Here's a snip from the spreadsheet:
and here is a snip from the the document after copy and pasting the above:
This is a snip of part of what OP shows in link to document in Comment:
Maybe something has changed since the Q was posted.
Best Answer
Without a sample from Visual Studio 2013 (in Microsoft Windows 8) to hand, I can't be sure but believe enhancements to Docs since OP was posted have changed the circumstances upon which the question was based. Certainly now Ctrl+v does not lose "all the formatting and text", necessarily.
For example the clip on the left is from Word and on the right from Docs after the text in Word was pasted there:
There were changes around the time the web clipboard was 'retired' in September 2017.