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.
Copying And Pasting From Word Into Wordpress?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.