Completely turning off rich text editor in WP2

I know that it is possible for each user to turn off the rich text editor in their profile.

However, we have found that this doesn’t completely disable rich text handling.

We are using WordPress to post a range of content that all comes from different places, created with lots of different tools(to run a dog rescue website – https://www.oldies.org.uk).

Much of this content comes with some embedded formatting, some of it a bit erratic, from Word or a variety of email tools.

If we paste our content into the rich text editor, it comes out odd shapes and sizes.

So, I turned off the rich text editor in Profiles, and reverted to the Markdown plugin.

But it’s still parsing embedded content: some text is appearing larger, and losing line breaks and so on.

I know I can paste the text into notepad and then paste that into the editor and that will clean it, but I have a small team of editors not all of them very web-savvy, and I want to induct a new editor, so I’d rather find a simpler way.

I’d really rather find a way of just being able to paste stuff into that field and have it appear with just the linebreaks parsed into P tags, same as it used to be.

Although there are some nice things to WordPress 2.0, if I’d realised that there would be so many bits that would really affect the way our site operates, I’d have thought twice before ‘upgrading’. ??

I hope the additional security is worth the hassle!