Pasting from WORD

[John C]

I have searched around and didn't see any recent or clear info on this:

Is there a way to paste stories from Word and keeping the formatting?  None of the paste options seem to work effectively.  Sometimes I get two bullets next to each other and the indenting never comes over to JIRA.  Especially frustrating when you have a 4 page story to re-format again after pasting into JIRA. 

Steps to recreate:

1. Write my story in word.

2. Copy and paste from word to jira.

Thanks in advance!

[Jack Brickey]

Not really John. The formatting including fonts and such are not necessarily going to be the same between confluence and Word. Is there a reason why you're constructing a document in word first? Maybe these are pre-existing documents that you want to move over to Confluence?

[John C]

"Is there a reason why you're constructing a document in word first? "

 It's a very big story and bigger stories are so much easier to write on a separate document rather than in JIRA. 

[Jack Brickey]

I'm confused, are you using Jira or Confluence? Are you creating a Story or Use Case? If you are using Confluence it is my experience that it is as easy, if not easier, to write a document versus Word.

[John C]

Creating a story in Jira. 

[Jack Brickey]

So I assume you are pasting into the Description field. Certainly you will have limited success pasting from a full word editor into a field supporting markdown. so some manual cleanup will be required.