Now that I have made the switch to using Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for most of my teacher-stuff and lesson plans, I no longer struggle with the “all the beautiful formatting I did in the Word doc got messed up!”
That’s because when I want to write something or create an assignment, now I start out using Google Docs rather than Word or Pages. Formatting issues resolved.
However, during my transition time from using other writing programs like Word or Pages, I do remember facing those issues.
Alice Keeler, my thought-leader in all things Google has written a blog post on “how to fix tables” that you have copied and paste into a Google Doc.
http://alicekeeler.com/2016/03/22/google-docs-fixing-tables-copied-pasted/