Copy/paste from Word documents preserving formatting

Hi! Let me tag some folks who may be able to support you with this.

​@Olatidoye 

​@SakthiVel 

​@ChanduMohammad 

​@GOAA 

​@Aaron.Gleason, could you can advise please?

hello @thomas.gawda,

The difficulty you're experiencing is with copying or formatting.Can you please send us an image of your code?

The difficulty you're experiencing is with copying or formatting.Can you please send us an image of your code?

Can variables preserve formatting of rich text? That would make my workflow easier as I can first extract the text and save as variables, and then populate the second document. Otherwise I would have to go between the documents which may be more brittle/prone to error.

Open to other suggestions as to the workflow.

Two things that might help you:

Check out String: Evaluate variable. It lets you create a string with variables and resolve it all to a single string. 

Consider using our clipboard functionality to copy the string from above to the clipboard. Then, in Word, use the paste special keyboard shortcut to paste into the area you want. 

Working with Word is challenging because it is not (necessarily) structured. You can also consider putting some markers in place and using the Find/Replace functionality of Word itself to help. 

I’ve tried using the clipboard functionality but when I assign clipboard to string, it loses the formatting (bold, bullet points, line breaks). It seems like my only way forward is to copy to clipboard and paste for each table row.

Unfortunately find and replace does not support formatted text (as far as I can see). Seems like I will have to stick with Simulate keystrokes, unless there is another way to find and replace the text?