Correct issues with the improper paragraph and line spacing after MS Word documents have been imported into PandaDoc.
"Import a Word document. Look at the incorrect paragraph and line spacing."
AdminValeryia Baranava
(Admin, PandaDoc)
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Hi. We aren’t planning on building this into our feature set at this point in time since it doesn’t fit into our current product roadmap. Please keep upvoting this idea so we can keep considering it every time we work on our roadmap.
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There are a considerable amount of improvement to the Word import option that could enhance PandaDoc customer experience. Firstly, when pulling in documents from Word, customers lose the ability to retain the footer in each section. While setting up a new footer is relatively easy, doing it a hundred times over is tedious and a time-suck. There's also the case where certain items coming in from word just simple don't pull into PandaDoc. Such as the table of contents. There's a table of contents block, however when importing, this is removed completely. Similarly, whenever importing a document that contains a with certain cells merged, the content itself is not properly displayed in its original format. This causes an additional slow down in the progress of creating documents. The easy answer to all of this would be to create a template, however each document is different and thus creating a template for every one would be a waste of time.
In conclusion, there are changes that could be made that would enhance the satisfaction of customers, while also increasing the ROI for the time spent in generating documents/templates in PandaDoc.
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Anonymous
commented
Keep the same number sequencing, spacing, and formatting with uploading a document.
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Aaron Reed
commented
Steps to reproduce the bug"
1. Import a Word document.
2. Look at the incorrect paragraph and line spacing.
Background:
- Need to use Microsoft Word to enable reliable spelling and grammar checking.
More information:
1. Go to Design > Text
2. Change the Line spacing and the Paragraph spacing and watch how only bullet lists are affected, but not any paragraphs of text.
Work Around provided by PandaDoc support:
1. Cut and paste the text into Notepad.
2. Cut and paste the text back into PandaDoc.
- Note: this can be hours of work, just to fix the spacing.
My workaround:
- One-by-one highlight each block of text in a paragraph and click the "Clear Formatting" button in PandaDoc. Must repeat this step for each text box. Also a very time-consuming task.
- After clearing formatting, it still shows as being "Normal Text" and the Line and Paragraph spacing numbers remain as they were, but suddenly the text on the page starts respecting these settings.
Both of these workarounds require you to carefully avoid all headers and bullet lists, as this process will destroy the required formatting for those parts.
This bug needs to be solved at the import function.
Please can you give me an estimated time frame as to when you will fix the problem, as it's causing many hours of wasted time trying to fix up Panda documents?
