Supported help center styles for third-party document types

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You can copy and paste content from third-party document types such as Google docs and Microsoft Word into your help center articles. The following tables list the formatting options available in these document types and how they are supported when copying and pasting content into your help center.

Supported formatting options are indicated by an "X" in the document type column.

This article contains the following topics:

• Sections
• Basic formatting
• Alignment
• Lists
• Links
• Tables
• Images

Sections

Formatting option	Google Docs	Microsoft Word (365)	Microsoft Word (Desktop)
Paragraph	X	X	X
Headings 1-6	X	X	X

Basic formatting

Formatting option	Google Docs	Microsoft Word (365)	Microsoft Word (Desktop)
Bold	X	X	X
Italic	X	X	X
Underline	X	X	X
Links	X	X	X
Font sizes	X	X	X
Text colors	X	X	X
Text background colors	X	X	X
Strikethrough	X

Alignment

Formatting option	Google Docs	Microsoft Word (365)	Microsoft Word (Desktop)
Left	X	X	X
Center	X	X	X
Right	X	X	X
Justify	X	X	X

Lists

Formatting option	Google Docs	Microsoft Word (365)	Microsoft Word (Desktop)
Numbered list	X	X	X
Bulleted list	X	X	X
Indentation 1-20	X	X	X

Links

Formatting option	Google Docs	Microsoft Word (365)	Microsoft Word (Desktop)
Links	X	X	X

Tables

Formatting option	Google Docs	Microsoft Word (365)	Microsoft Word (Desktop)
Table formatting
Cells	X	X	X
Cell alignment	X	X	X
Split cells	X	X
Cell formatting

Images

Formatting option	Google Docs	Microsoft Word (365)	Microsoft Word (Desktop)
Paste	X	X
Image dimension	X
Importing images	X	X