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Ankit B
March 5, 2020
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Adding Lucidchart diagram to Microsoft Word

  • March 5, 2020
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I was trying to copy a lucidchart diagram to Word but it either pastes an older version of the diagram or just a blank box. The Lucidchart page shows a "Saving" notification but it does not finish saving for over an hour. If I refresh the lucidchart page the change is lost (not saved). How to fix this issue?

Best answer by Zuzia S

Hi ​@garrettb and ​@iodaconsulting, thank you for your posts and I am sorry for the inconvenience this is causing to your workflow!

As mentioned by my colleague above, this process is not formally guaranteed to function since it does depend on both Lucid and Microsoft. There may be something that occurred outside of Lucid’s control that prevents copy and paste from working on your device. 

As a workaround, have you tried exporting your document/document portion as a PNG (with transparent background) and adding that to your documents? Alternatively, you can use our Microsoft add-ins to insert your diagram into your document, although I understand that it might not be the most convenient solution if you are interested in inserting a specific part of your diagram. As another alternative, you can take a screenshot of your diagram’s given portion and then insert it in a Microsoft document.

Once again, I am very sorry for the trouble caused. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns!

Comments

February 12, 2025

I do not want to propose something I’ve been using the last two years. It has no sense! It DID exist and it DID work.

It has no sense to dras diagrams on Lucid that then you can’t copy on a Word document.

 

Let’s go back to Visio :-(

Zuzia S
Lucid community team
February 13, 2025

Hi ​@iodaconsulting, thanks for following up. 

Unfortunately, the workarounds provided above are the only formally supported functionalities at the moment. Thank you for your understanding and apologies once again for the inconvenience. 

August 5, 2026

“We made sure to pass all of your valuable thoughts along to our dev team and we’ve just heard back that this issue has been successfully resolved 🎉” what is the solution?

 

This issue is not resolved. I am having the same issue not being able to copy and paste from lucid to word. It used to work and suddently stopped working. This is very frustrating and hindering my ability to perform my tasks.

What is the solution please?

Ambar D
Lucid community team
August 7, 2026

Hi ​@KUtami, thank you for your comment! Sorry for any confusion here. Unfortunately, copy/pasting from Lucid into Microsoft Word is not formally supported in Lucid.

 

We’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. Our product team is seeking feedback about exporting Lucid documents to Microsoft, and I’d recommend leaving your feedback in this thread if this topic interest you:

For more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

 

Lastly, I want to recommend an alternative- 

I recommend utilizing our Lucid add-in for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. You can learn more about how to set this up here. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about setting that up.