The LiveDiligence text editor supports content pasted from a variety of sources, including:
- Microsoft Word
- Google docs
- Microsoft Excel (plain text)
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Some other web-based tools that support markup or html content
Microsoft Word and Google Docs
The following content types and styles are ☑️ supported when pasting:
☑️ Text
☑️ Tables
☑️ Images
☑️ Charts
☑️ Hyperlinks
☑️ Symbols
☑️ Shapes (Word only)
☑️ Icons (World only)
☑️ Smart art (Word only)
☑️ Drawings (Word only)
☑️ Bold
☑️ Italic (Word only)
☑️ Underline
☑️ Strikethrough
☑️ Cell colour
☑️ Font background colour
☑️ Font colour
☑️ Text alignment
☑️ Bulleted lists
☑️ Numbered lists
☑️ Indentation
The following content types and styles are 🚫 not supported when pasting:
🚫 Text boxes
🚫 Equations
🚫 Horizontal dividers
🚫 Headers/footers
🚫 Footnotes
🚫 Font size
🚫 Font style
🚫 Subscript and Superscript
🚫 Border styling (tables)
🚫 Column/cell widths (tables)
🚫 Row/cell heights (tables)
The above lists are not exhaustive. If you find that other types of content are not appearing correctly after pasting, or do not appear at all, they are likely not supported.
Pasting from Excel
LiveDiligence supports basic pasting from Excel in the form of plain text. This means that a selected area of cells copied from Excel and pasted into LiveDiligence will appear as an un-styled table (continue reading for a workaround). Note that styling such as cell colour and text colour can be added after pasting using the LiveDiligence editor functionality (see Working with tables)
If you have an Excel sheet with lots of custom styling that you wish to keep, then there is a workaround using Word:
- Copy the cells you need from Excel;
- Paste the copied cells into a Word document;
- Copy the resulting table generated in Word;
- Paste into LiveDiligence.
Pasting from PowerPoint
LiveDiligence supports copy and pasting of powerpoint content. There are three main modes of copy and pasting PowerPoint content:
- Copy/paste text
- Copy/paste individual elements
- Copy/paste entire slide
Note that for options 2 and 3 the content is pasted as an image, which can be resized as required.
Plain text paste
Both Windows and MacOS provide keyboard shortcuts for pasting copied content as plain text.
- Windows:
Ctrl+Shift+V(or right click → paste at text)
- MacOS:
Cmd+Shift+V
This can be helpful if you are seeing undesirable styling after pasting. After the plain text paste you can then use the LiveDiligence editor to re-apply any styling required.