tencentpiece

I'm trying to copy and paste content from word into wordpress and it keeps fucking up all the formatting. A couple of weeks ago this worked fine and now it's busted.

Anybody have any ideas as to why and what I can do to fix it? I've tried regular copying and pasting and I've also tried using the 'paste from word' button, the 'paste from plain text' and a whole host of other shit.

To give you some idea of what I am loosing:

Bolded text, hyperlinks and general formatting such as bullet points.

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Heist

I've always pasted my edited word docs into Microsoft Notepad and then paste from Notepad to Wordpress. Although a process, it's the only way I find to avoid formatting errors.

eliquid

I got that too recently when it use to work as well.

I have no way around it right now myself, fucking is a headache. Made my writers submit TXT files to me b/c of it

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SethH

I've had the same problem myself in the past. Normally this is due to the theme you're using not having a full and proper CSS definition set. Lots of premium themes are going to have tons of great shortcodes, yet their standard Ul/LI, H1-5 etc. aren't properly defined.

One thing worth trying out: Paste from Word to Dreamweaver, then copying the source code and pasting into Wordpress from there. Seems like there is a bit less 'lost in translation' that way

tencentpiece

It's not the theme unless I'm having the same issue across like 100+ themes and the default wordpress themes as well.

It's something relatively new so I am guessing it's a wordpress update but not entirely sure.

Glad to know it's not just me, hopefully somebody has a solution as it's annoying as fuck. I don't have dreamweaver unfortunately.

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SethH

Can you save your Word docs as .htm and then open them in a text editor from which you there paste into Wordpress's HTML input after the removing all the header garbage with Word produces? Worth a shot anyways

amateursurgeon

Try using Windows Live Writer as an offline editor, and posting directly to WP from that (you need to enable xml-rpc)

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dynamicsoul

switch to html view then paste

pdxdvr

Click the "Paste from Word" button on the editor toolbar. I'm amazed this actually ever worked for any of you, copying and pasting from Word is a big no-no in all the WordPress communities I know.

eliquid

^^ derp, learn to read. Already did this

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avatar33

That's why I create author accounts on all my sites and ask my writers to write the articles directly within WordPress.

It saves so much time, stress and hassle it's not even funny. Can't believe I've been doing the Word copy-pasting for so long...

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DexterMorgan

TextBroker has a cool feature enabling your accepted articles to automatically post in WP as well. Definite timesaver.

tencentpiece

If I copy and paste into notepad then it automatically strips the bold text and hyperlinks though which is extremely what I am trying to avoid.

It's not really an option when you have 50+ part time writers and A LOT of different sites unfortunately.

I've already tried this and it still strips all the formatting.

That still strips all the formatting like bold and hyperlinks.

Thanks for all the ideas so far.

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Moxie

This might help : Convert Word Documents to Clean HTML

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tencentpiece

This is also stripping bold ;\.

In fact when I just copy and paste into another word document it's also stripping bold and hyperlinks - could this be a weird setting I've got ticked in word with copy and pasting?

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Moxie

Yeah maybe, I just tried with Libre Office Writer and the bold got copied over.


Control the formatting when you paste text - Word - Office.com

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DrewEnds

This always happens to me. I just do it in html view and then switch back to visual.

vaizbunas

I am getting this thing on Mac only,from windows I can paste the text with no problems.

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schockergd

Older versions of skype prevent copy+pasting, try upgrading or disabling skype and try it again.

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vinnythejinny

didnt read the entire thread but always use HTML option when copy pasting. Dont use the wordpress rich editor, it will mess up your formatting. With HTML, you will have to reformat a little bit though.

Midas Touch

OK, give this a shot. I'm not sure if it will work for you or not.

I use Office 2007 still. Try creating a new document using "New Blog Post" instead of "New Document".


Then paste it into Wordpress and see if this will transfer the formatting for you.


I'm not sure if it'll work for you or not.


Just a thought for you to try.


DISCLAIMER: I'm an Old Fart and have no real programming skillz.


Lulz

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Scififisher

Here is the trick I use to create html ready copy for word press or other web page creation.

1. cut/paste the document into notepad or other plain text editor (this strips out the word formatted code you can't see most of the time)
2. copy/paste the plain text into an html editor. Preferably a standard WYSIWYG editor.
3. Format the document using the html editor
4. while in html view cut/paste the code into WordPress or other web page creator.

Is this a PIA? Yes. Is there any way other way to ensure that you don't get the weird MS formatting shit that Word puts in? Not that I know of other than what a couple of the other folks do as a work around. 1. set up a user account for your writers and have them format and edit the web page directly. 2. Have your writers write strictly in html format. i.e. have them do 1-3 for you.

ScottDaMan

I made a thread this month about this problem, only not in WordPress, but my custom CMS. I finally found convertwordtohtml.com "Word Cleaner" and it has been a God send. It literally takes me 5 seconds to convert 50 .docx files into .html files that I then open in notepad and copy/paste to my editor's html view.

What I love about it is it has a template system that allows you to specify find/replace variables like “ to " to automatically convert magic quotes and other Wordcrap into html code.

It's fucking expensive but the time it has already saved me has paid for itself.

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stan100

Just press

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terranthor

always c&p from notepad!

tencentpiece

Got it fixed, wasn't wordpress at all - was just word. Apparently when you use a registry cleaner on win7 it can cause copy+paste to not take formating. I just had to open word in safe mode and then copy and paste something, then reboot and now it works fine.

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