Pasting text from MS Word – Different results in FF/IE

  • I have made a blog for a school who post up their daily bulletin, which starts as a word document (printed out and handed throughout the school)

    If i copy the content of the word doc and paste it into “write” in FF, i get double lines between paragraphs which have to be removed manually.
    If i do it in IE6, the spaces are correct
    If i do it in IE7, it retains some formatting and the font from the word document.. (using <font face=”Times New Roman”>”

    any idea why this should be, or what i can do about it? thanks,

    david

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  • You should NEVER copy from MS Word into the wysiwyg (visual) editor.

    The crap code that is in any MS document is beyond repair. It’s not WP. It is MS.

    Thread Starter jeffcapeshop

    (@jeffcapeshop)

    i thought as much!

    however i don’t think they really have a choice.. can you think of any solutions?

    Copy and paste the content into notepad so it loses the formatting word gives it, and then manually format it in the wysiwyg.

    Thread Starter jeffcapeshop

    (@jeffcapeshop)

    yep i think that will have to do. unfortunately it means re-doing any bold titles etc..

    There are also plain text extractors for use on IE, PDF, MSWord, etc. files. I can’t recommend a particular tool, since this is something I’ve only heard of others using. Might be worth researching if you’re faced with a lot of daily volume, though.

    I never use the wysiwyg monster… but upgrade to 2.3.
    It will have a button on the end which will display an “advanced” version of it with a second row of buttons – among them one saying “Paste from Word”. It cleans the code.

    Yes, the reformatting is due after that.

    Thread Starter jeffcapeshop

    (@jeffcapeshop)

    hmm the reformatting is the biggest issue really.. can i just confirm that “paste from word” pastes as plain text?

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