Paste into Google Drive and Preserve Style

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Hi, everyone–

I’m new to Scrivener and loving it so far. (Posted about my first experience here: http://abramkj.com/2014/07/13/writing-my-first-paper-using-scrivener/)

My current workflow has me going either from Scrivener into Word or from Scrivener into Google Drive/Docs. The former is easy enough to do, but I haven’t been able to figure out a way to compile a Scrivener project right to Google Drive. I.e., there doesn’t seem to be an export to Google Drive option?

So my workaround was to just copy and paste (it was a simple project), but I couldn’t figure out how to have Google preserve the styles in Scrivener, even though I tried paste and match style.

Any ideas for preserving styles when going from Scrivener to Google Drive? I can use Word as an intermediary between the two in the meantime, which works fine.

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Google Drive uses its own format. Your best bet is going to be to compile to a format that GDrive understands (RTF, DOC, etc…) and then import from there.

What kind of formatting are you trying to preserve?

Katherine

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Thanks for the reply–that’s what I’ve been doing. Just was hoping to skip the in-between step, but I think that’s on Google and not Scrivener.

As for formatting/styles, it’s really not much. Just some italics for emphasis, bold for centered headings, etc.