michael_nielsen

Does anyone know how to copy-and-paste nested bullet points in Google Docs? Tearing my hair out, and all the obvious searches yield nothing useful. @googledocs

Huh. Interesting. I'll try in Safari.

Well, this is interesting: it doesn't work for me in Safari. I'm on desktop, OS X, using cmd-C and cmd-V. Same for you?

Same for me. Generally, one can "paste as plaintext" via CMD+CTRL+Shift+V which would reproduce your problem. Maybe you have enabled "paste as plaintext" enabled by default somehow on the OS level?

Ah, interesting! If I use the menu with rightclick, copy-and-paste works correctly. But if I use cmd-c and cmd-v it loses the formatting. So there is something strange going on. In at least some other apps formatting is preserved, so I'm not sure it's OS level.

But it does suggest some sort of keybinding issue. Google Docs preferences doesn't seem to offer any options like this, unfortunately.

Huh, that is interesting. If you ever find out how to enable/disable it, I'd love to know. Sometimes, I really just want to paste as plaintext a bunch of stuff in a row and have to twist my fingers in these awkward poses to get the ctrl+cmd+shift+v working