To take advantage of the tools and services in Academic Writer, we recommend that you write your paper in the Writing Center.
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To avoid various unpredictable errors in the formatting, ​fonts and figures, Academic Writer doesn't have an option to import a paper.

If you started a paper elsewhere, you can paste plain text in the paper editor. Make sure you paste as plain text to avoid any unexpected errors in your exported paper. You'll see a prompt to do so when you use the paste function.
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If your paper includes citations, you'll want to relink your citations to references in your Academic Writer account to make sure they're included in your paper's formatted reference list.
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Additionally, you should avoid pasting formatted text in your references, tables, figures, footnotes, and appendices. You can paste text into a plain text editor like Notepad (PC) or Text Edit (Mac) to remove formatting before pasting in Academic Writer.