# 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.

## Related

- [Editor basics](/docs/editor-basics)
- [Pasting Markdown](/docs/markdown-paste)
- [Images and media](/docs/images-and-media)