Pasting from Word?

Pasting from Word is going to cause you lots of problems.
All word-processors embed special characters and when WP comes across these – any you can’t see them – it will cause errors.

Editing in a plain text editor is fine, but Word ? No…

I’m happy to move things from word to notepad — but that seems just to compound the hyperlink problem — if I put it in with no formatting, then I will need to enter the hyperlinks? Are there any suggested ways around this problem?

The new editor makes life a lot easier – highlight a word, click the link button, paste link, click OK.

If there are many common links there are also plugins that help by autolinking words.

I’ve been using the link function — I think I don’t even know the bad old days when that wasn’t an option. But that still seems time consuming — is there a plug in that would allow to simply take a documents with the hyperlinks already included and insert the same hyperlinks into wp?

Or is there some other kind of editor that could serve as a way station between a text editor and Word Press — a kind of transfering program?

Or — we haven’t gotten the upload feature working yet (I have an error) — if we did, would that be a way to solve this problem, or is that for something else?

Uploading is mainly for images.
I don’t know of any workaround for links.
Making a link in the wysiwyg editor is very similar to making a link in Word.

it is the same as doing it in Word, but if you have already done it once, you don’t necessarily want to do it again! thanks for your help — what do the plugins do and where would you find them?

Plugins are extensions, additions that change the behaviour or add features to the core WP.
Plugins

okay — i looked briefly through that page, but was unclear as to whether any of these plugins would solve my problem. seems like they can clean up hyperlinks, but not necessarily preserve formatting. is that right, or is there one that would work for this purpose?

With the help of BrianBonner (who posted a similar thread a while back) I think I’ve found a solution. Take your text from word, and paste it into the performancing by firefox (can be found at performancing.com — need the latest version of firefox), and then turn on the rich html editor. Then copy that text into wordpress, and voila, all of the formatting you need for the links is there. You lose the wysiwyg nature of wordpress, but if you are sure you are done before you put it there, it seems like it works.

And what about the “Paste from Word” function in EditorMonkey? Works for me.

What I do is write it in notepad to get the straight quotes in the links, then paste it in Word for spell checking.

I have this same problem. I write in Word. I just switched to WordPress from Blogger. A quirky thing with blogger was that I could paste fine from Word to Blogger so long as I was logged in to Blogger with IE. You have to also add one hard return to the end of the text or else Blogger would combine the last two paragraphs.

In Firefox the hard returns in Word were converted to double spaced paragraphs. I tried pasting into both EditorMonkey and Performancing and had the double spacing problem. Links are there, but then you have to go back and backspace out the extra space for every paragraph.

With the default WordPress editor it looks fine in the editor but after you publish the double spacing shows up both using IE and Firefox.

It’s clumsy and I hate it, but I tried pasting from Word into Blogger’s editor then recopying and pasting into WordPress and it worked. But you have to have that one extra hard return at the end and you have to be using IE, as Firefox will double space. Blogger’s editor ignores the Word formatting except the links giving you clean text with links.

I assume the same results can be obtained with the right stand alone text editor or plugin. I just haven’t found it yet. Obviously, a plugin for WordPress would be the best solution.

Or turn off the WYSIWYG editor in WP. (Users -> Your Profile, bottom option on the page).

But hey, I wrote a little article about PureText the other day that might be interesting to you: https://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2006/07/09/pure-text/
(sorry, not pimping traffic. It just seemed to apply).

i’ve got the same problem as jmehta – i’m supporting someone else’s blog, and they haven’t even HEARD of notepad!

maybe i can get him to install an offline editing app…
or maybe i’ll find a javscript “clean up word html” script and run it on all posts…

Well, you better do something if you’re responsible for the dreck they post. What, you’re going to babysit every post they make? Bad idea, you can go broke really fast that way. Basically, you need to hand them a viable working presumably validating site, and then tell them: from now on, clean up (assuming their use of word etc.) is at $x per hour. And make it stick.