Comments on: WordPress Problems with Pasted MS Word Content

By: Uday

Uday — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:10:43 +0000

Hi,

1.i copied image from word document
2.past in FCk Editor
3.image not displaying in fck editor.
4.Help me..

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:38:05 +0000

when I copy/paste stuff from word into wordpress I just switch to the source code view in wordpress and post in there, that avoids the whole formatting problem. I don’t need the WYSIWYG editor anyhow, so that’s not a big problem for me…

By: Charleston

Charleston — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:07:13 +0000

Agree but I’m still using MS word to write my article content as it could easily corrects grammatical error.

After everything’s written, Its good idea to transfer the write to Notepad before shifting to WordPress.This is what I usually do and it clears out all the browser probs.

By: Free Energy Generator

Free Energy Generator — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:31:08 +0000

I usually write my texts in the simple “notepad” software that comes with windows and then format it in wordpress or the editor of the article directory to which I want to submit the text.
I once even had my screen get completely locked, just because I copied text from my OpenOffice into the online editor of an article directory o.O
Won’t happen again!

By: Ice Skates For Sale

Ice Skates For Sale — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:12:49 +0000

This post takes me back to when I started to use WordPress for blogging. Not knowing then what I know now it was quite infuriating to put it mildly. I was just so used to using Word for writing but boy was I glad when I learned what was causing my problems. There will be many who will be delighted when they read your post.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:38:37 +0000

I have never used Word to author Web pages, mainly because of the problems you addressed above. My preferred tool is Notepad++, which is a plain text editor. The keywords are automatically colour-coded properly for me when I open a specific file – much like a developer’s IDE.

By: Net Age | Web Design

Net Age | Web Design — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:35:03 +0000

Notepad is the weapon of choice this side for doing drafts in. Personally I really don’t fancy Microsoft’s Office products and use OpenOffice instead. How is OpenOffice with cutting and pasting into WordPress?

By: qreviews

qreviews — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:07:40 +0000

I always use same the solution 2. I just use notepad for copy a lot of text. Thanks.

By: Freelance Web Designer

Freelance Web Designer — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:51:54 +0000

The best way i do my pasting is pasting to notepad and then copy/pasting from there. Just because notepad removes all formating and plain text is what is left.

By: Renowned Media

Renowned Media — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:23:03 +0000

I’ve always done the whole “paste into and copy from notepad” approach, but that always removes formatting. Dreamweaver does a decent job of cleaning up.

By: Houston Web Design

Houston Web Design — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:58:01 +0000

Great article. I come across a lot of bad code that comes from copy and pasting directing from Word into a WYSIWYG editor. Google tends to associate this bad code with spam as people who rapidly build website for the purpose of spamming, tend to copy and paste from word and produces this bad code. To the commenter above me, this relates to all version of Word.

By: Ben Pei

Ben Pei — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:17:03 +0000

By the way, is that MS 07?

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:41:03 +0000

I don’t use Word at all – don’t even have Office installed. I use Notepad++ and highly recommend the program to Windows users.

But I do run into this problem with clients. I can usually teach them to use the paste from Word button. The plugin also sounds like it could be useful with certain clients.

Funny that IE has the most trouble rendering Word

By: Ben Pei

Ben Pei — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:51:11 +0000

Yeah just like Dennis said, I use notepad for most simple writing, copy and pasting.

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:32:50 +0000

If I am using MS Word for editing, I usually copy paste it once to notepad and again copy paste on to the WP editor. I hate MS Word’s quote characters which are many and sometimes URLs can get screwed up because of this.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:33:36 +0000

Oh yea this is an oldie but a goodie. I’ve been warning for years to not cut from MS for anywhere…way too much crap-code is input.

I use notepad as well, but may try some others you mentioned.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:53:35 +0000

I always ‘Save As’ from word and choose ‘Web Page, Filtered’ as the type. This removes most of the Word specific information. Although that’s probably a similar result as the paste from word option.

By: stratosg

stratosg — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:10:08 +0000

Well i will have to agree with Kurt. The best way i do my pasting is pasting to notepad and then copy/pasting from there. Just because notepad removes all formating and plain text is what is left. Nice post there!

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:32:59 +0000

Normally if i have to copy or quote a part of a text i paste it in notepad, remove word wrap and then recopy to paste in wordpress.

Weirdly Ihave the habit to do my drafts on notepad There are piece of notepad drafts all over my document folder lol. Then I just copy a post to wp when i have to publish and format accordingly with photos and h1 or h2 tags.