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We're really excited about this launch, it's been months in the making.


I really like a lot of what you've done, though there's still some polish needed (I love that you do polish weeks). Asana has been fantastic to work with, and it really makes it possible to do my job. Thank you!

One thing I'm sorry to see continue to go unfixed is the inability to copy and paste text out of MS Word or Outlook into asana without losing formatting and having the spaces removed between words. I've spoken to support about it, but get a response of "just copy and paste it into textedit or notepad, then copy that into asana", which isn't really a solution.

We use asana for graphic design projects (among many other things) where text formatting is important. Bits and pieces often come out of emails, and it would be a huge productivity boost to be able to work directly in comments and task descriptions instead of attachments (or having to paste, fix, and reformat each comment).

Seems like it would be an important feature, it's a problem I work around daily.


When was the last time you've tried? We support some amount of formatting https://blog.asana.com/2014/06/rich-text/


When I copy: http://i.imgur.com/80gJEXF.png

from outlook (though it also does this with word), and paste into asana, I get: http://i.imgur.com/zpLqiId.png

If I recall correctly, the problem began when you rolled out richtext last year. I'd imagine its due to Word including lots of invisible markup like `<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>`.

I'd think Office is ubiquitous enough that many people have this issue.


But no Markdown support. :(


The refresh looks nice but Asana really needs the ability to create custom fields in tasks and maybe an agile view as well.


Custom fields in tasks will be out in early 2016!


Yeah, they're in beta right now. They work well but we're polishing them before public launch.




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