Paste from Word

[Neha]

Hi,
When I try to paste from a formatted word file, (both through the paste from word and plain paste option)
The text first displays as formatted data and once I save the file, the formatting is gone.

Also, it automatically takes double line spacing in the snippetmaster editor.

Is there any way to paste the formatted text from a doc file and import directly?

Thanks,
Neha

[Jenkinhill]

Copying and pasting from the Devil's typewriting program (Word) is, as you have found, problematic. There are some formatting options within Word that will never copy across. If you copy direct into the editor window then M$'s junk style code will be copied too, and on saving the codesweeper may well remove any formatting that is not correct XHTML - even then you are likely to end up with junk like

Code:

<p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"><span> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span>
</p>

So it is better to use the pop-up pasting option for Word. This at least loses the M$ junk code. Some text formatting - paragraphs, bolding, lists etc will copy OK, but tables, for example, are likely to fall apart. Also there may still be some M$ in-line styles there which will over-rule your page CSS.

I rarely paste directly from Word - my usual way is to copy from the document into NoteTab Pro (any good plain text editor will do), then copy and paste from there into the editor, and re-add the formatting. This picks up my styles and ensures consistency.

[admin]

I agree with Kelvyn,

The "Paste from Word" function works to "clean up" about 80% of the code that Word produces. 

Unfortunately, there's not much that can be done since MS Word (especially older versions previous to Office 2007) are notorious for adding all kinds of crap into the document code.