# Pasting Links to Google Docs into Descriptions and Comments Removes Link Text

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/pasting-links-to-google-docs-into-descriptions-and-comments-removes-link-text/1027467>\
**Category:** Ask the Community\
**Created:** [17 February 2025 23:30 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/pasting-links-to-google-docs-into-descriptions-and-comments-removes-link-text/1027467 "2025-02-17T23:30:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Issenberg1](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Jeff\_Issenberg1](https://forum.asana.com/u/Jeff_Issenberg1)\
**Post date:** [17 February 2025 23:30 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/pasting-links-to-google-docs-into-descriptions-and-comments-removes-link-text/1027467/1 "2025-02-17T23:30:29Z")

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One of the features I appreciate in Asana is the ability to paste **formatted URL links** (meaning the link’s text with the underlying URL) into Descriptions and Comments with CTRL+V. I’ve noticed that it no longer works with URLs to Google Docs and Sheets. This ability first disappeared from Descriptions when Asana upgraded the integration with Google Docs. And more recently it disappeared from Comments too. So now when I paste a formatted URL link of a Google Doc or Sheet into an Asana Description or Comment, it’s a hyperlinked URL and it can’t be edited.

I use the [FormatLink Chrome extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/format-link/pocemhmkmchpgamlnocemnbhlcjcbjgg) to generate links. (It uses the following format:

\<a href=“{{url.s(”"“,”"“)}}”\>{{text.s(“\<”,“\<”)}})

Here’s a screenshot of an Asana comment with two links. The green arrow points to what I’d like it to look like when I paste a link and what it used to look like. It is now tedious to create this. I can no longer use the FormatLink Chrome extension to paste links to Google Docs or Google Sheets into Asana Descriptions or Comments. Instead, I’ve got to copy and paste the text of the Doc name, then copy and paste the URL over the text to create the formatted link.

The red arrow points to what it looks like now when I paste a formatted link to a Google Doc into an Asana Comment and this link can’t be edited.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/4X/0/0/f/00f8d3838a87789df5ecf0fa81b333e0146405ad.png)

Is there a workaround for this so that I can resume pasting **formatted URL links** to Google Docs and Sheets into Descriptions and Comments in Asana with a simple paste?

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**Author:** ![Jan-Rienk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/jan-rienk/32/227709_2.png) [@Jan-Rienk](https://forum.asana.com/u/Jan-Rienk)\
**Post date:** [18 February 2025 07:44 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/pasting-links-to-google-docs-into-descriptions-and-comments-removes-link-text/1027467/2 "2025-02-18T07:44:32Z")

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Hi @Jeff_Issenberg1 ,

I didn’t even know this was a thing. Now I’m curious.

[@ambforumleader](https://forum.asana.com/groups/ambforumleader) [@pforumleader](https://forum.asana.com/groups/pforumleader) Any tips for Jeff?

Here is a related feature request that might solve this and then some:

> [@Further Markdown Support](https://forum.asana.com/t/further-markdown-support/273871):
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> All the current Markdown posts seem to be locked. I take notes in Sublime Text as they happen, in Markdown. When I then copy & paste them into Asana for task tracking, I have to manually reformat links, unordered lists, block quotes, fenced code… Why doesn’t Asana just support CommonMark fully? It should be a drop-in plugin, it’s available in pretty much every codebase…

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**Author:** ![Herve\_Buisset](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/herve_buisset/32/287327_2.png) [@Herve\_Buisset](https://forum.asana.com/u/Herve_Buisset)\
**Post date:** [18 February 2025 10:33 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/pasting-links-to-google-docs-into-descriptions-and-comments-removes-link-text/1027467/3 "2025-02-18T10:33:42Z")

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I have just tried this in a description and a comment, and it works as before.

Typed text “My Google Doc”  
Selected Google Doc URL - CMD-C  
Selected “My Google Doc”  
CMD-V

Chrome Version 133.0.6943.5

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Issenberg1](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Jeff\_Issenberg1](https://forum.asana.com/u/Jeff_Issenberg1)\
**Post date:** [19 February 2025 23:15 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/pasting-links-to-google-docs-into-descriptions-and-comments-removes-link-text/1027467/4 "2025-02-19T23:15:06Z")

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To simplify things I’ve created [this 40 second video](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k9o2Yi0RYtUjFeUMZF_HDSd9Wp304oHH/view?usp=sharing). Please watch.

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**Author:** ![Cyan0679](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Cyan0679](https://forum.asana.com/u/Cyan0679)\
**Post date:** [20 January 2026 16:05 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/pasting-links-to-google-docs-into-descriptions-and-comments-removes-link-text/1027467/5 "2026-01-20T16:05:03Z")

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Actually, I believe it has to do with windows vs mac. When I copy paste links on mac, it pastes the link, but when I use my regular windows computer, it pastes the link as a description