Copy content from Form to a word document

We have a security issue and we are not allowed to generate document in Appian. We have a requirement to generate acknowledgement letter, since we cannot generate the document and provide a link in Appian,  users have requested to display the content in an Appian form and they would copy paste the content manually to a word document.

We have tried richTextFiled, paragraphField and even multiple text fields to display the content on the form the content looks perfectly formatted with correct spacing, but on copying the contents to a word document the format is not retained any ideas on how to solve this issue

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    Certified Lead Developer
    in reply to sravanis918

    Hi sravan,

    Yes I have tried it still facing the same issue.
    Below is the example

    Test     XXXX

             XXXX

    There is 5 spaces between the two words in the first line, since there are 4 alphabets in the first line I have added 4 spaces in the next line total 9 spaces but the words XXXX do not align in the vertical line.
    Pasting the above content to notepad aligns them perfectly but on pasting it to word results in alignment issue.
    I have noticed that giving 2 spaces for every alphabet gives kind of good alignment in word but if there is an upper case alphabet again it creates an issue.

  • Does the result need to be a word doc (editable doc)? If not, the user could ctrl+p and print the form to PDF using the browser supplied tools (both Chrome and IE have it).
    For editable docs, you may be able to find an extension that users could use to convert the Appian form into a desirable format.

    Out of curiosity, why is generating a doc a security issue?
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    Certified Lead Developer
    in reply to Mike Cichy
    Hi Mike,

    Yes it should be a word document because there are some logos in the document. The user will paste the content in a word template.
    We are using Appian cloud and the document generated will have customer data it is not allowed to store the documents in cloud even temporarily.