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Craxihuber
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1 month ago

Text highlighting not visible when exporting to Word

When I highlight text in a Paper document in my browser and then export it to MS Word, the highlighting gets lost. Bold, italics, underlined instead are all working as expected and are retained. I t...
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Neal
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13 days ago

Hi Craxihuber​,

Thank you for waiting, this issue has now been fixed but you will need to make a change on your paper docs before exporting as the existing data is already cached in Dropbox.

We have also tried to match highlight colours as best as possible but we could not get an exact match as there seems to be a restriction on the .docx side.

Let me know how you get on.

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