What kind of formatting? Bold, underline, font changes, etc. all work fine for me.

Try CTRL+V instead of right-click -> paste.

 

All my indenting and paragraphs are gone. I've narrowed down the problem: it's Scrivener, the writing program I use. I can paste docs from MS Word into google docs all day and it works fine.....but anything copied from Scrivener--even if I paste it first into Word--will lose formatting when pasted into a google doc. Makes it very difficult to just share some text with someone else when I'm using that program, and it's my primary writing tool.

 

You must copy and paste into a file of some type and then send it to the Google drive.
But I may be wrong as I do NOT use the Cloud.

 

Yes, I take the text from Word and paste it into a new Google Doc, and get NO INDENTING.

 

Okay--this is SOLVED! I just had to right-click---open w/google docs. Just to be thorough, since Scrivener ( a fantastic writing program) will not cooperate w/formatting if you just try to paste directly into a google doc or even a word doc:

* I copy the text from Scrivener to a new Word doc, save. Then upload the file to google drive, right click, and choose "Open with google docs." Formatting is preserved perfectly.

Nice to find a simple solution.....I feel a little silly, but hey....it must be the pandemic.