Importing from Google Docs

Bring a Google Doc into Workover with its formatting intact, for the very common case of a draft that started somewhere else.

Importing

From a project, import and give it the document — either by connecting your Google account and picking from a list, or by pasting the document’s URL.

The document arrives as a Workover document, ready to edit and publish like any other.

What comes across

Headings, paragraphs and text formatting
Bulleted, numbered and nested lists
Links
Images, uploaded into the document rather than left pointing at Google
Tables
Blockquotes and code blocks

Images matter here. A Google Doc’s images live behind Google’s access control, so a copy-paste leaves you with pictures that work for you and are broken for everyone else. Importing copies them properly.

What does not

Comments and suggestions. They stay in Google. Resolve or export them first if the discussion matters.
Revision history. Workover starts its own from the import.
Fonts and colours. Deliberately — inherited styling from another tool is the usual cause of a published page that looks subtly wrong.

Permissions

You need access to the document. If you connect your Google account, Workover reads it as you; if you paste a URL, the document has to be readable by the link.

Read-only. Workover does not write back to Google, so the original is untouched and the two do not stay in sync — the import is a one-time move, not a connection.

Just pasting instead

For a single document, selecting all and pasting into Workover works well: rich text keeps its structure. The import is worth it when there are images, because pasting leaves those pointing at Google.